Carrion

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stars out of five. Carrion Comfort is a highly original, Bram Stoker award winning, action-horror. The plot centres around the battle between the forces of good and evil, in this case psychic, mind controlling vampires. Does that sound awesome or what?

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair which Hopkins called carrion comfort." Dan's first published story appeared on Feb. 15, 1982, the day his daughter, Jane Kathryn, was born. He's always attributed that coincidence to "helping in keeping things in perspective when it comes to the relative importance of writing and life." A tightly wound caseworker is pushed out of his comfort zone when he’s sent to observe a remote orphanage for magical children.Unable to remember the events that led to that fateful day and plagued by frightening visions Monica is determined to get some answers. One of the cases where I absolutely don´t understand why people don´t like it. In other cases, there are elements that make it completely understandable that one can´t deal with too sciency, too charactery, too world buildy, too whatever elements, but this has everything, it´s the beginning of the career of one of the most talented and underrated writers of the 20th century. I’ll just say that there’s this mean racist old vampire woman born in time of racial segregation . There’s this Nazi SS vampire . I hated them both. And there are others wealthy ,hateful vampires who despise everyone. THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi’s themselves...

Tony Harod, a powerful Hollywood producer with minor use of 'The Ability' which he can only use on females. He often helps The Island Club with hopes of becoming a member. The novel portrays a tiny fraction of humanity that has immense psychic powers, which they refer to as "The Ability.” These powers can be used to completely control people from a distance to commit any physical action, including murder. This Ability has been used throughout history to have a direct or indirect influence, via the perceived charisma of world leaders or the actions of more covert individuals, on everything from individual senseless murders to the Holocaust. Across multiple timelines, the novel mostly follows two groups of amoral people in 1980, some with aspirations of world domination, as their clashing involves a group of investigators. These non-psychic investigators follow a series of bizarre murders to the conclusion that a cabal of powerful psychics must be stopped. Carrion Comfort is a mess of a book. Not only are there evil, mind-controlling vampires, the things they do are just so ripe with evil. It's almost like they give evil a new name. Third, there were a few instances where I was wondering, "How did we get there from where we were?" It kind of felt like an action was missing...That's kind of a minor thing. I'm a very visual reader, and this book is very visual. Honestly, I never had any issues with anything in particular. This was a pretty epic horror novel filled with tons of mind-jumping, mind and body controlling, and history. The focus on the details is what made it pretty damn awesome, but that's what horror is all about.There is often so less action, few cliffhangers, nothing one is used to in modern writing to pimp, accelerate, and distract from characterization, plotting, and logical flaws and errors, Simmons is using pure characterization and a complex, interwoven net of protagonists and antagonists to lead the long novel to a culmination of epic proportion. The book itself was terrifying in parts. Some creepy, tense moments and horrifying characters. The premise that these individuals could control your mind and actions from a distance away is just...terrifying. That you could be used to commit someone else's horrible deeds is scary indeed. One compliment is also that this book is very unpredictable...I never saw anything coming, it keep surprising me over and over.

If I were to put my issue into words, I'd still have a hard time, because its faults were also its strengths. It was unpredictable.Do you like mind-vampires that look, feel, and act like Donald Trump, Conservative Religious Nutsos, Concentration Camp Masters, or quiet, unassuming matrons who take on entire inner-city gangs? Ambientada en la actualidad (bueno, en los años ´80 cuando fue escrita), la caracterización de los personajes es impecable, especialmente me impactó Melanie Fuller, la anciana adherida a una aristocracia decadente y Saul Laski, un sobreviviente del holocausto, obsesionado por su experiencia de haber sido “usado” en los campos de exterminio. In her early twenties she moved to Oxford, where she would eventually meet her husband. During her time in Oxford her interests turned from poetry to novels and she began to develop her own unique style of psychological thriller.