Big Thunder - Brossura

Atkins, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 000649014X ISBN 13: 9780006490142

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1998

Riassunto

A dark avenger from the pages of a 1930s pulp magazine, Strange Thrills, materializes in the present day streets of Manhattan. This scourge of muggers and rapists is the Blue Valentine, dressed like Fred Astaire, gentleman vigilante.

But he is not the only character coming alive in modern New York, and not even his creator’s fertile imagination could have prefigured the carnage to come...

Valentine Dyson’s mysterious awakening from the yellowed pages of Strange Thrills coincides with a car smash that leaves his creator, Norbert Read, an old man now, in a coma. As a shadowy nemesis of evil, Valentine is infamous among pulp scholars for being the most vicious and amoral of all such cloaked avengers, but Norbert Read had abandoned his character after only a few stories.

The Blue Valentine first reveals his identity to a goodtime New Yorker, Avis, whom he saves from attack by a razor-wielding wino on the Bowery. In tuxedo and opera hat, a blue flower in his buttonhole, the shade of the gentleman crime fighter confirms to Avis that he is a ghost, returned because Manhattan has need of him again. Then the Blue Valentine drags the unconscious mugger into an alley to torture him to death.

Avis tracks down the one story Norbert Read wrote that survives in book form: ‘Big Thunder’, in the anthology Bedside Creeps. It does not feature Valentine Dyson. The story is about a small Western town of that name whose inhabitants trampled, at the expense of their lives, on the peace of the spirits that were there before. Big vengeance is in store.

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‘Morningstar offers a modern perspective on the vampire legend... the descriptions of the murders are breathtakingly foul – and Atkins manipulates the reader’s sympathy mercilessly’
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L'autore:

The author was born in 1955, a year of birth he is proud to share with Disneyland, rock’n’roll, This Island Earth and Kiss Me Deadly. Former actor, former musician, he has been a professional writer since 1987, working mainly in the film industry. For twenty years he has been convinced that Buster Keaton is God.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 000649014X
• ISBN 13: 9780006490142
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352