Título: The Necromancer's House
Autor: Christopher Buehlman
Sinopse: Product Description "You think you got away with something, don't you? But your time has run out. We know where you are. And we are coming." The man on the screen says this in Russian. "Who are you?" The man smiles, but it's not a pleasant smile. The image freezes. The celluloid burns exactly where his mouth is, burns in the nearly flat U of his smile. His eyes burn, too. The man fades, leaving the burning smiley face smoldering on the screen. "Oh Christ," Andrew says. The television catches fire. Andrew Ranulf Blankenship is a handsome, stylish nonconformist with wry wit, a classic Mustang, and a massive library. He is also a recovering alcoholic and a practicing warlock, able to speak with the dead through film. His house is a maze of sorcerous booby traps and escape tunnels, as yours might be if you were sitting on a treasury of Russian magic stolen from the Soviet Union thirty years ago. Andrew has long known that magic was a brutal game requiring blood sacrifice and a willingness to confront death, but his many years of peace and comfort have left him soft, more concerned with maintaining false youth than with seeing to his own defense. Now a monster straight from the pages of Russian folklore is coming for him, and frost and death are coming with her. Review "The logic of the plot is eclipsed by the eruption of characters who evoke Dickensian whimsy and range from the merely unusual to the bizarrely imaginative. Within this magical universe, rivalries, revenge, and self-seeking contend with the willingness to sacrifice." ---Publishers Weekly Starred Review About the Author Christopher Buehlman is the author of the literary horror novels Those Across the River and Between Two Fires. The winner of the 2007 Bridport Prize in poetry, he is also the author of several provocative plays, including Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka.Todd Haberkorn is an actor, director, producer, and writer. As a narrator, he has won multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and has narrated audiobooks in a wide variety of genres.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Necromancer’s House”, de Christopher Buehlman, publicado pela editora Tantor Audio e em 2013, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Tantor Audio
Páginas: 0
Ano: 2013
Edição: 3
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781452667157
ISBN13: 9781452667157
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Tantor Audio oferecem uma experiência de leitura que transita entre a narrativa ficcional intensa e a biografia detalhada, com uma predileção por histórias que exploram conflitos profundos, sejam eles pessoais, históricos ou fantásticos. O catálogo apresenta tramas que misturam suspense, magia e batalhas, como em relatos de personagens que enfrentam ameaças sobrenaturais ou guerras, ao lado de obras que investigam figuras históricas e eventos marcantes com linguagem acessível e ritmo envolvente. A alternância entre fantasia sombria e não ficção histórica cria um contraste interessante, que pode atrair leitores que buscam tanto emoção quanto conhecimento, sempre com uma narrativa que valoriza o desenvolvimento de personagens e a construção de atmosferas densas.
