Book: The Demonologist Author: Andrew Pyper Genre: Fiction/Thriller/Horror/Supernatural Summary: David Ullman is a literature professor at Columbia University, with special expertise on Paradise Lost. The epic poem about Satan and his court of fallen angels makes for a fascinating lecture, but...
Imagine reading about demons at 2 a.m. in the morning. You're alone at your bedroom. The night is eerily silent... and your cat makes noise all of a sudden just to keep you at the edge.That wasn't enough to scare me. Although "The Demonologist" is not a bad read, it was delivered in a way that just ...
I wasn't surprised at all to read in the author interview in the back of the book that the author is a fan of Stephen King. Literary horror, cerebral and fun.
One of my favorite horror reads of the year. Very literate with quite a bit of exploration of the literary source of demonic activity. I particularly enjoyed the discussion of how demonic entities enter into and control a person's life. Whether you attribute these influence to an intelligent enti...
A fast moving thriller with plenty of twists and turns. Even having never read Paradise Lost I could follow how it played a roll in this book. The ending, however felt a bit rushed. This is not my normal genre to read, so the rushed ending may be normal but I did not feel satisfied at the end, like ...
The story and the slowly revealed backstory explains the existence of evil in the world in an internally consistent way, but for me the premise was not convincing so that the fear inducing aspects were not so effective. I am afraid that the explanation remains more than a stretch.
I have to say I can't shake off the ghost of "Don't Look Now" by Daphne Du Maurier when I was reading this novel. It had that weirdness as if the whole story is filtered through a blurred lens and one is never quite sure what is going on but is compelled to read on.
Last night I had the dream again. Except it’s not a dream. I know because when it comes for me, I’m still awake.Professor David Ullman teaches religious literature and is a scholar of Milton’s Paradise Lost and also of demons, but the irony about his studies is that David does not believe in demons ...
David Ullman is a professor and has spent his life studying literature about demons. He is particularly interested in Milton's Paradise Lost. From the very beginning he finds himself identifying with Milton what he does not know is that this identification will later lead him on a journey in which...
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