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Angel of Darkness
Angel of Darkness
Angel of Darkness
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Angel of Darkness

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In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasies under the name "Samuel M. Key." Now, beginning with Angel of Darkness, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint's own name.

When ex-cop Jack Keller finds the mutilated body of a runaway girl in the ashes of a bizarre house fire, he opens the door to a nightmare. For a sadistic experiment in terror has unleashed a dark avenging angel forged from the agonies of countless dying victims....



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LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 1, 2007
ISBN9781429911306
Angel of Darkness
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Charles de Lint

Charles de Lint and his wife, the artist MaryAnn Harris, live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His evocative novels, including Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, and The Onion Girl, have earned him a devoted following and critical acclaim as a master of contemporary magical fiction in the manner of storytellers like John Crowley, Jonathan Carroll, Alice Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, and Isabel Allende.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    3.75 starsA man and a missing teenage girl are found murdered in a hidden room in the man's basement/recording studio. The first people on the scene, including the majority of the police officers, suddenly start hallucinating off and on, and dreaming of this place they are hallucinating about. What is going on, and what happened to the dead man and girl? They won't figure it out until more have died. This is one of de Lint's adult/horror novels written under the pen name, Samuel M. Key. It was quite good, though gruesome in parts. It was a quick read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is quite possibly the creepiest book de Lint ever did. He's never been one to shy away from the darker side of human nature, but this book includes outright gore at the start. A sociopath records the screams of his victims as he tortures them in the hopes of... who really knows? When he plays the sounds he's recorded, he unleashes a fury on to an unsuspecting Ottawa.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    For the most part I do not like the books that De Lint wrote as Samuel Keys. It is not what I have come to expect from his books. These are chronologically some of his earlier books so this is understandable. What I do like is that you get to see how Newford and his other worlds developed.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A creepy novel, originally published under the penname Samuel M. Key. A serial killer's experiments with pain and sound (he likes to record his victims' screams) unleashes an avenging spirit on an unsuspecting Ottawa. Definitely different from de Lint's other works, but an effective horror story.

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