But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction.
Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to ‘use’ humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression. THE PRESENT… Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world’s most horrible and violent events.
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… 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. The publisher’s book description sums it up this way :: Yes, the book is long, clocking in at nearly 650 pages in my version (with some printings topping 800 pages), but it is the concepts behind the book and reach of the story that truly makes it epic. This definitive call of hope and perseverance forms the basis for Dan Simmons’ epic horror saga of the same name. Not untwist-slack they may be-these last strands of man Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong.Gerald Manley Hopkins late 1880’s poem, “Carrion Comfort,” begins this way :: Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction. THE PRESENT… Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world’s most horrible and violent events. “One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finney’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, and Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot. Whenever I get the question asked Who’s your favorite author? my answer is always Dan Simmons.” - James Rollins “CARRION COMFORT is one of the scariest books ever written. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever. “Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. “CARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century.
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