Título: The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle
Autor: William Holloway, Brett J Talley, Michelle Garza
Sinopse: With The Abyssal Plain, Holloway and Talley have managed to transform the Cthulhu Mythos into something with a more modern flavor, drawing not just from the well of cosmic horror, but from technothrillers, survival horror, and splatterpunk, with just a dash of the lost sensibilities of the shudder pulps. A cup full of tentacles mixed with existential nihilism and sprinkled with liberal quantities of gore, this is Lovecraftian horror with a bloody bent that few others have dared to explore. --Peter Rawlik, author of Reanimators
They called it the Event.
The Event changed everything. The earthquakes came first, including the Big One, shattering the Pacific Rim and plunging the world into chaos. Then the seas came, the skies opened, and the never-ending rain began. But as bad as that was, there is something worse.
The Rising has begun.
A lone man who abandoned the world for his addictions searches a waterlogged Austin for something, anything to cling to. Little does he know that something else searches for him.
In the Sonoran Desert, the downtrodden of the world search for a better life north of the border, only to see the desert become an ocean: an ocean that takes life and gives death.
In the woods of Alabama, survivors escape to Fort Resistance, but soon discover that it isn't just the horrors of the deep places of the world that they need to fear; but rather a new and more deadly pestilence that has grown in their own ranks.
In England, it's too late to fight, and all that's left is to survive. One man reaches for his own humanity, but what to do when humanity is an endangered species?
And in the Pacific, He is rising.
In The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle, authors William Holloway, Michelle Garza and Melissa Lason, Brett J. Talley, and Rich Hawkins have created a timely and uniquely modern reimagining of the Cthulhu Mythos.
The Abyssal Plain documents the apocalypse as inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, worsening swiftly from its creepy, suggestive origins to an all-out nightmarish hellscape. Told in the varied voices of its multiple writers--which lends to the feeling of a widespread event--this mosaic novel is a gripping, cinematic roller-coaster ride of action and suspense. Enough with zombies, already...I'd pay to watch a TV show based on this book. "The Walking Squid," anyone? --Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Abyssal Plain: The R’lyeh Cycle”, de William Holloway, Brett J Talley, Michelle Garza, publicado pela editora JournalStone, em 2019 e com 302 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: JournalStone
Páginas: 302
Ano: 2019-11-29
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1950305147
ISBN13: 9781950305148
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora JournalStone costumam mergulhar o leitor em atmosferas densas de horror e fantasia sombria, onde o sobrenatural e o psicológico se entrelaçam. As narrativas frequentemente exploram conflitos entre o humano e o desconhecido, seja em cenários urbanos contemporâneos, vilarejos isolados ou até mesmo no espaço profundo, sempre com um tom tenso e envolvente. O catálogo aponta para histórias que misturam investigação, mitologia oculta e confrontos com forças além da compreensão humana, muitas vezes com personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais e crises existenciais. O ritmo varia entre contos de suspense e aventuras mais intensas, mantendo um clima de inquietação e mistério que permeia a experiência de leitura.
