Well how can one describe something so brilliant? Utterly brilliant - a masterpiece of epic proportions! An unclassifiable, epic experience that promises to change the titular duo…even as it changes those who read it.

An interstellar story, a slasher story, a late-bloomer coming-of-age story, and an American story, too. So begins the adventure of a lifetime, as Ghoul and the Cape travel across America and beyond, picking up other eccentrics along the way, even as they duck the Naught’s many dark agents:Ī knife that reflects Time and Space as it cuts.įrom a haunted jail and a cowboy graveyard, to the home of the most famous actress in the world and the barge as it carries the Statue of Liberty to America, Ghoul n’ the Cape - equal parts thriller and meditation - is about people becoming more than what they thought themselves capable of being, about man’s place in the modern world: a world facing the irrevocable alterations of the Naught.

Will Ghoul go with him? Will Ghoul help the Cape outpace this horror while spreading the word of its arrival to all and everyone they meet? The Naught – who the Cape claims to be a nefarious celestial entity capable of tipping the balance of good and bad for all on Earth. Unbury Carol is an unsettling read that will keep readers hooked through the last page.“The Naught is nigh,” the Cape tells Ghoul in a dark corner of a Manhattan tavern. Perhaps Malerman’s greatest feat is his depiction of Rot, the embodiment of death.

Malerman brings his frontier world alive in surprising and original ways, and he describes Carol’s coma-world, referred to as Howltown, with marvelous detail. Meanwhile, Carol, who can hear all that is going on around her, does everything she can to wake up from her coma before it’s too late. To keep Moxie from thwarting his plans, Dwight hires a terrifying hitman known as Smoke, who will stop at nothing to kill Moxie. Moxie, however, learns of Carol’s “death” and begins his long journey on the Trail, hoping to save Carol from being buried alive. After Carol falls into a coma, Dwight seizes the opportunity to inherit her large fortune careful to avoid suspicion, he offers a convincing story for her death and arranges her funeral to be held in two days. Only two people know her secret: Dwight, her greedy and conniving husband, and James Moxie, her first love who she hasn’t seen since he became a famous outlaw years ago. Carol Evers has a recurring condition that makes her appear dead even though she is actually alive in a coma-like state. Part Western fiction and part horror story featuring supernatural elements, Josh Malerman’s recent novel Unbury Carol is thrillingly creepy.

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