A Choir of Ill Children

A Novel

Tom Piccirilli

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Bantam
15 July 2004

Fiction & Literature; Horror & ghost stories; Crime

The award-nominated novel that Dean Koontz praised as ""A wonderfully wacked, disorienting, fully creepy book....

The poetic nature of the prose and seriousness of intent carried the day in every scene"" is available in a newly repackaged edition that will introduce a whole new audience to this modern horror classic.

This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Harry Crews.

A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned.

Since his mother's disappearance and his father's suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers-conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain-and the town's only industry, the Mill.

Because of his family's prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk.

Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas's childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace.

All Thomas learns is that

""the carnival is coming.""

Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.

By: Tom Piccirilli
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 170mm, Width: 106mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 142g
ISBN: 9780553587197
ISBN 10: 0553587196
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 July 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active