The Living One: A Gothic Thriller

by Lewis Gannett

Book Overview

After years of estrangement, typical suburban teen Torrance Spoor is summoned to the home of his father, Malcolm, where he learns of a seven-hundred-year-old family curse destined to end in madness... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452271347
• ISBN13: 9780452271340
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Inexplicably amazing

This book covers it all. It does a great job of developing each of the characters. Through Gannett's use of characters' notes, diaries, internal diologues, and their observations of eachother, each of them comes alive (metaphorically, of course). The novel involves history (whether real or imagined); the paranormal; psychic animals; mystery; varying sexual identities and preferences and the issues that arise from them; varying age related/based perspectives and the feelings around old age as opposed to youth, and the longing for eternal life as opposed to the ability to just enjoy life; etc. This was just a really good, well written novel. I could hardly put the book down. I've already rated it right up there with Anne Rice, and Kelley Armstrong.

I bought 2...

I read the book quite a while ago after stumbling across it in a book store. I loaned it out & it was never returned, but I liked it enough that I had to replace it. It is a fascinating story, with amazing imagery.

Very good genre-straddling horror novel.

It's been a few years, but having just finished Gannett's only other novel, "Magazine Beach", I'm reminded of how great "The Living One" is. If you're a fan of Clive Barker or Steven King, you'll love this one. To say much more is to spoil it. This book stuck in my mind for a long time.