At Gehenna's Door (Point Horror Unleashed) (urspr publ 1997; utgåvan 1997)

It's hard to know how to rate this book. The plot is original and interesting - enough so for me to stay up late to finish it. However, the style of writing is just plain bizarre. It doesn't fit the genre at all and seems to fluctuate between purple prose (which gives the reader the impression that the book is set long before it actually is) and awful similes. (Like "a snowflake's cough"? Really?) If you can manage to get into a place where you can blank out the writing and just focus on what's happening, though, it's actually an entertaining read. Not a keeper, but not a waste of two hours, either.

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