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The Keep (Adversary Cycle)
by F. Paul Wilson
from Tor Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A Master Storyteller Weaves A Tale of Powerful Spookiness.
  
  Being a writer myself, the one thing that I think I learned the most from reading F. Paul Wilson's The Keep, was his masterful way with dialogue. If you want to feel like the characters in a book are talking right in front of you, or if you want to `really' feel like you know and care about the characters speaking, then start reading this guy right now.
  A spooky castle nestled away with no evidence of who owns it or what it's for. Thousands of strange crosses mounted all over it. Rumors of no... more info

• "This place was not designed to keep something out..."
  F. Paul Wilson's THE KEEP is one of the best atmospheric horror novels ever published. Cleverly plotted, ably written and featuring characters of remarkable depth and complexity, it does a great deal to single-handedly destroy the sterotype that "scary" books can't rise to the level of art.
  THE KEEP begins in early-mid WW2, with a small unit of German soldiers occupying a deserted castle in the Translyvanian Alps. When one of the soldiers foolishly disturbs a secret chamber in the cellar, however, he... more info

• The begining of a wonderful series
  I lost alot of sleep staying up to the wee hours reading this wonderful story.F Paul wilson is a great story teller.His other books in the series night world,the tomb and the touch are must reads as well

• The beginning of Wilson's mythology
  In 1941 a small contingent of Nazi soldiers occupies an abandoned keep in the mountains of Romania. The origins and purpose of the keep are shrouded in mystery, but the Germans care little about such things. The first night of their occupation, one of their number pulls one of the stone blocks that forms a cellar wall. In search of buried treasure, he instead finds a quick and grisly death. By breaking into a secret chamber, he has released something that had been trapped for 500 years. The remaining... more info

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