The 37th Mandala
by:
Marc Laidlaw (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312130213 (031213021X)
Publish date: July 1st 1995
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
New Age nuttery unleashes an ancient evil. The mandala mythos is interesting, with a Lovecraft on LSD feel, but the characters are generally shallow, and failed to inspire much empathy.
The style is smoothly competent even if not remarkable and the premise pretty original for the genre. Mandalas are symbols used for mediation in Eastern religion. When a New Age con artist, Derek Crowe, encounters some occult lore concerning them, he makes them the subject of his latest book, ignori...