Road of Bones

Christopher Golden

Horror Thriller

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"Tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell... I loved it." ―Stephen King
Pursued by unknown terrors across the frozen Siberian tundra, a documentary-maker experiences a nightmare journey into the icy darkness in the terrifying new novel from the multi award-winning author.
Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia's Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy surfaces, limited visibility, and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, fatal car accidents are common.
But motorists are not the only victims of the highway. Known as the Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Union's gulag prisoners. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and were left where their bodies fell, consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost road.
Fascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix "Teig" Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust, "the coldest place on Earth", collecting ghost stories and local legends along the way. Only, when Teig and his team reach their destination, they find an abandoned town, save one catatonic nine-year-old girl―and a pack of predatory wolves, faster and smarter than any wild animals should be.
Pursued by the otherworldly beasts, Teig's companions confront even more uncanny and inexplicable phenomena along the Road of Bones, as if the ghosts of Stalin's victims were haunting them. It is a harrowing journey that will push Teig beyond endurance and force him to confront the sins of his past.

Über Christopher Golden

Christopher Golden, Jahrgang 1967, ist der Autor zahlreicher, vor allem phantastischer Romane. Er unternimmt immer wieder Ausflüge in die Welten anderer Schöpfer, und so hat er u.a. Bücher zu Buffy, Battlestar Galactica und den X-Men verfasst. Hellboy-Fans sei vor allem der wunderschön ausgestattete Band Baltimore ans Herz gelegt, den Mike Mignola illustriert hat.

Mike Mignola, Jahrgang 1960, ist einer der ganz großen Stars der US-amerikanischen Comicszene. Neben seinem Welterfolg Hellboy arbeitete er auch an Filmen wie Bram Stoker' Dracula und Atlantis Das Geheimnis der verlorenen Stadt mit. Alan Moore hat Mignolas Stil als "eine Mischung aus deutschem Expressionismus und Jack Kirby" bezeichnet. Im deutschsprachigen Raum erscheint sein Comic-Werk bei Cross Cult.


Verlag:

Titan Books

Veröffentlicht:

2022

Druckseiten:

ca. 230

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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