If you like slashers, or monsters, or zombies, or anything that could pass for an action movie, These Things Linger is not the book for you. These Things Linger is beautiful, cerebral horror with equally beautiful prose and characterization. It has a slower pace while keeping you hooked until the very end.
After Alex's uncle, Matt, dies, Alex inherits all his uncle's things. It's not much, just a ramshackle trailer and the boat he and his uncle used to fish in. Long estranged from his uncle, and having missed his passing, Alex is seeking closure. So, he takes the rickety boat out to the middle of the lake and performs a ritual he learned from an old friend, Lacey, many years ago. He soon feels absolutely ridiculous. Alex is an engineer, and has long enrobed himself in logic and skepticism.
Too bad for him.
Not only does the ritual work, it works too well. It brings something else with it, something that devours not only the dead but, bit-by-bit, the living who dared to summon it. This thing threatens Alex's wife and his unborn baby. When a banishment spell fails, Alex is left adrift and covered in bites. He has to figure out what to do be he, along with his family, is devoured.
Luckily, there's an old friend who might have an idea....
The jump from the ritual to the creature felt a little sudden, but Alex and co are so well-written that the story smoothed out almost immediately.
If you like lit fic with a heavy dash of spec or horror, These Things Linger will be an excellent addition to your collection.
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These Things Linger by Dan Franklin was so good that it ruined other books for me. I rarely read physical books anymore- reading gives me headaches so I listen to audiobooks. I didn’t want to wait for this audiobook to come out so I had to suck it up and read it because I had been really looking forward to it. I loved his other book, The Eater of Gods, so I didn’t want to wait any longer to read These Things Linger. Not only did I read it once, but I read it twice back to back. And after, I had a book hangover for a couple weeks. That’s how good Dan’s book is! It had me hooked right from the beginning. It was so fast paced and I never felt bored. The characters were likable. The story was unique. I laughed, my heart raced, and I cried. I even cursed Dan out for a certain thing that happened (but I can’t say it without spoiling anything!)
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2024Format: KindleVerified Purchase
These Things Linger by Dan Franklin was so good that it ruined other books for me. I rarely read physical books anymore- reading gives me headaches so I listen to audiobooks. I didn’t want to wait for this audiobook to come out so I had to suck it up and read it because I had been really looking forward to it. I loved his other book, The Eater of Gods, so I didn’t want to wait any longer to read These Things Linger. Not only did I read it once, but I read it twice back to back. And after, I had a book hangover for a couple weeks.
That’s how good Dan’s book is! It had me hooked right from the beginning. It was so fast paced and I never felt bored. The characters were likable. The story was unique. I laughed, my heart raced, and I cried. I even cursed Dan out for a certain thing that happened (but I can’t say it without spoiling anything!)
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Genuinely scary!
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A beautifully written horror
Format: KindleVerified Purchase - RhiannonReviewed in Canada on July 12, 2024
4⭐ Grief Horror
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I kept staring at the cover of this before I read it thinking "I swear that looks like a crazy lamprey-DuneWorm creature..." Heh.Rhiannon4⭐ Grief Horror
Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2024
Great horror centering around grief and loss. (This review is tricky, I'm trying not to give any spoilers here, but it's not easy!)
Alex is raised by his uncle Matt in a rather poor town that seems to be running itself down through bad luck, economic downturns and general malaise, yet despite this Alex and his uncle have a pretty good relationship. Alex gets up to teenagerly things, some not so great, but he seems overall like a decent guy. After a brief experimental go at messing with an occult book with his teenage girlfriend, that seems more like a lark but has dark underpinnings for what comes later in his adult life, Alex eventually moves on to actually making a decent life for himself.
A falling out with his uncle Matt followed by that same uncle's death become the catalyst for Alex making some truly tragic choices as he attempts to (poorly) deal with his grief and guilt over how their relationship went. The fallout drags his newly pregnant wife, that old teenage girlfriend, and his uncle Matt's best friend into the horror show that violently erupts.
Franklin's style was rather reminiscent of Stephen King's in his characters and that nostalgic look back on growing up in a small, poor town. He paints a picture of this town and the deep melancholy of enduring a life in it until Alex finds a way out and seems to be making a real life for himself, but all the while there is a deep underlying dread.
As Alex tries to claw back from the horror he's unleashed on his loved ones, the action really amps up into a truly terrifying showdown.
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