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Born to the Dark
By Ramsey CampbellPublisher Description
"Campbell’s writing is intimate, darkly funny, and deeply human, balancing edge-of-the-seat suspense with heartfelt character development. This delightfully unsettling sequel does not disappoint." — Publishers Weekly
Book 2 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy.
1985. Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His and Lesley’s small son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic assumes the occultist Christian Noble is out of his life, but his influence on the world is more insidious than ever. Roberta Parkin has become a journalist and infiltrates the new version of the Nobles’ cult, but are the experiences it offers too powerful for her to control? In order to rescue his son from the cult, if he can, Dominic must undergo them too…
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Book 2 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy.
1985. Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His and Lesley’s small son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic assumes the occultist Christian Noble is out of his life, but his influence on the world is more insidious than ever. Roberta Parkin has become a journalist and infiltrates the new version of the Nobles’ cult, but are the experiences it offers too powerful for her to control? In order to rescue his son from the cult, if he can, Dominic must undergo them too…
FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress
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“Thirty years after the events in The Searching Dead, forty-year-old Dominic Sheldrake has long put the days of his childhood investigation of Christian Noble and his practice of spiritualism behind him. Now a husband and father, as well as a university film professor, Dominic is worried about his son Toby’s nocturnal seizure disorder and finding a treatment that will cure him. When Dominic’s wife Lesley learns of the Safe to Sleep program from a pediatrician that will cure Toby of his seizures, they are elated.
Almost immediately after sending Toby to Safe to Sleep, Dominic overhears him and another child playing strange games, and learns that Toby has been telling outlandish stories in school. Stories that Toby has learned by reading Dominic’s old copies of Christian Noble’s journals. Toby begins to tell his parents about dreams of travelling the universe and drawing pictures that remind Dominic of Christian Noble’s sermons from his church. Trying to learn more about the Safe to Sleep program’s mysterious origins and the widespread seizure disorder affecting numerous children in the area, Dominic begins to wonder what became of Christian Noble and his precocious daughter Tina. With the help of his old friends Jim and Roberta, Dominic seeks answers to not only the motives of the Nobles, but also to save his family.
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to read the first book in The Daoloth Trilogy, The Searching Dead thanks to Flame Tree Press. I wasn’t initially sold on the first book, but Ramsey won me over with his world building and fleshed out characters. I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book since I finished the first in March, and I wasn’t disappointed. If it at possible, I think I enjoyed Born to the Dark more than The Searching Dead. Just as in the first book, Ramsey nailed the character development. Grown up Dominic was just as compelling as he was a kid. I loved seeing the nods to his past in his relationship with his father and seeing his friends Roberta and Jim again. Yes, The Tremendous Three are still friends! Most of all, I loved the character of Toby, Dominic’s young son. I cannot wait to see what happens in book 3 when I get it.
Thank you to #NetGalley and #FlameTreeBooks for providing me with the eARCs to both this novel and its predecessor in exchange for my honest reviews. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”
About Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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