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Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty's classic horror novel. I'm really hoping that Dark Matter will lead to more in the ghost-story mould from this author, as it's exactly the type of book that makes me want to read more.
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Our group is trying to reach to summit of the yet unconquered third highest peak of the Himalayas, retracing the steps of a previously ill-fated team.
In 1937, a 28 year old, down-on-his luck guy named Jack, is offered the chance to join an Artic expedition to a remote uninhabited area named Gruhuken.
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The mountain at the centre of this story is Kangchenjunga; the tale is narrated by the team's doctor, Stephen, writing in his journal.
It's not long before strange events convince at least one of the group that they're not quite as isolated (or as safe) as they think. The result is a creepy story in the Victorian style, atmospheric, oppressive, and yes psychological. During the winter period within the Arctic Circle (see Norway’s far northern island, Svalbard, in this case), the four months from late October to mid-February will experience Polar Night.
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And it is not by blood and guts and grossness but by the gradual ratchetting up of tension as the hero, left alone, suddenly discovers that he is neither.The novel ends in tragedy that is as haunting as anything else in this deeply affecting tale of mental and physical isolation. Stearne spends the rest of his life in an asylum, creating three Hieronymus Bosch-esque paintings full of “tiny malevolent faces”. Painted in such obsessive detail they could be alive”, they take the world by storm after his death; 50-odd years after the murder, journalists and academics are digging into Stearne’s story. It seems like the book took way too long to set up the scene and the characters when it was completely unnecessary to do so. Thousands of years ago an orphan boy and his wolf cub challenge a demon bear that threatens to destroy their world for ever.