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by Michael Scott

A Dublin antiques dealer awakes at night to find moonlight falling on an unusual mirror, and illuminating hazy sexual scenes from the distant past. With blood on it, the mirror becomes clearer, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074740884X
• ISBN13: 9780747408840
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Time Warner Books UK
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent horror story!

** spoiler alert ** Wow. Hollywood should make this into a horror movie. It was creepy - and subtly so in many way - and scary and bloody and so totally wonderful! Plus, there's even a sequel if it did well... So, our main character, Jonathan Frazer (although one could argue that the Image and the Mirror are really the main characters, since the mirror in itself really is a character the way it was written) finds this mirror being auctioned and purchases it, thinking it is the find of his lifetime. And that's where the trouble begins. The first death at the mirror's hands (in "current day") is gruesome. I cringed as I read the details. The poor man meets an awful end - and even though I knew it had to happen, just because I was waiting for the mirror to start "causing" accidents, it was nonetheless a shocker as I read the horrificness (I know, not really a word, but it really is the best way to describe it) of it. And the mirror doesn't stop, once it gets started. The pace picked up from there. Enough so, that even the interlaced chapters about the mirror back in Elizabethan times kept us propelling wonderfully forward. I love how Mr. Scott isn't afraid to kill any one of the characters. It means I never know what is coming next and I love it! The end that some of the other characters met surprised me. I won't share them to keep the spoilers from being too much, but let's just say that I was equally horrified and stunned a number of times. I was routing for Jonathan to be saved and to not be lost to the mirror. But, while he didn't redeem himself or manage to save others it was interesting to see the book end the way it did. The mythology of the mirror isn't really clear until very close to the end. And even then, I would have loved a little more detail then just the one chapter. But it tied things nicely together and was a welcome chapter. And it wasn't really necessary - the mystery of it added to the suspense. And even though we were slowly seeing the parallel story line with Dee and the unnamed woman, I was still left with a few questions about the mirror, which to me, makes the story that much creepier. The jacket warns the reader that this is an erotic horror story. And it doesn't mislead. The sexuality wasn't gratuitous or out of place. In fact, I found it some what disturbing that the erotic was so easily tied to the gruesome and that it felt fairly natural to read the two together. The characters are well written and the dialogue is very well written. I got a few unintended laughs from some of the material that was "dated" (the chapter with the young boy who got the computer - but it wasn't the 486 he wanted - made me chuckle even though that wasn't the intended effect, since I think my macbook with it's mere 100 GB is now virtually obsolete!) but those chuckles didn't distract from the end results (like in that chapter when the screen exploded and killed the young boy). The characters were everyday people, struggling with each