bones of the moon
black cocktail
a child across the sky
outside the dog museum
the panic hand
kissing the beehive
the land of laughs
the marriage of sticks
from the teeth of angels
sleeping in flame
voice of our shadow
Outwardly Joseph Lennox is an ordinary young
man, raised in a New York suburb and striving to make his
way as a writer. Yet for him Vienna is not just one of the
lures of Europe but a refuge in time and place, a refuge
from a tragedy in his boyhood in which he played a for more
complicit role than anyone realized. Joe's overbearing older
brother, Ross, taunted him as they played near a railroad
and touched the third rail, dying instantly. But he lives on
in Joe's lonely guilt and dreams.
Now, in Vienna, Joe finds friendship with the strangely manic Paul and India Tate, and their destinies soon become erotically--and ominously--intertwined. Once again Joe is haunted by the specter of betrayal and death. In the end he must face the horrifying realization of how fragile is the barrier that separates the demons of our own conjuring from the inescapable reality of the unseen.
Jonathan Carroll's first novel, The Land of Laughs, was dubbed by The Washington Post an "intricate, challenging, ultimately chilling tale." Voice of Our Shadow, in its imaginative power and delineation of terrifying pursuit, will be seen as an even greater achievement.
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"Voice of Our Shadow is the most
frightening novel I've read since Bram Stoker's
Dracula. I thought it was a love
story, and it was. Then I thought it was a ghost story, and
it was, sort of. Then I thought it was a story of madness,
and it might be, maybe. It is a cunning, magical, wonderful
novel--funny, sexy, sad, and tender."--Pat Conroy, author of
The
Great Santini and The Water is Wide
"A compulsive page-turner. Carroll is an excellent stylist, with an effortless command of language that never calls attention to itself but hits home with the power of a natural force."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"The novel is so smooth, so quiet, that when the terror comes it jolts you like a scream in a chapel."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A spare, taut little novel that uncoils into horror."--Philadelphia Inquirer
