STALLO :
Spjut,Stefan
STALLO : Supernatural Thriller Stefan Spjut - 1 - London Faber&Faber 2015/01/01 - 587
Summer 1978. A young boy disappears without a trace from a summer cabin. His mother claims that he was carried away by a giant. He is never found.
Twenty-five years later, another child goes missing. This time there’s a lead, a single photograph taken by Susso Myren. She has devoted her life to the search for trolls, legendary giants known as stallo who can control human thoughts and assume animal form. Convinced that trolls are real, she follows the trail of missing children to northern Sweden. But humans, some part stallo themselves, have been watching over the creatures for generations, and this hidden society of protectors won’t hesitate to close its deadly ranks.
Review
Dark and thrilling ... Like King, Spjut ... has an ability to make you believe in the unbelievable. Yet Spjut is a simpler, elegant writer - he not only captures the everyday world but effortlessly interweaves his fantastic creatures into the story without startling you out of the fiction. He's scary too, very scary. Never mind Scandi crime ficction, the time has come for Scandi horror. (Metro)
A deeply evocative tale that draws you to a place where human nature is threatened by the chilling darkness of the supernatural. (Thomas Alfredson, Director of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY)
A fantastic novel in every sense of the word. I was enthralled from the very first page, not only because the story is intensely riveting and constantly surprising . . . but also because he writes in a language that captures the everyday life we otherwise know inside and out. (Karl Ove Knausgaard)
'Spine tingling. This spooky novel is great for open-minded mystery/thriller readers who enjoy a bit of genre blending as well as fantasy fans.' (Library Journal)
Spjut turns Scandinavian mythology upside down in a shades-of-gray world built for lovers of fantastical suspense. (PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY)
'A fun, cunning crime thriller...If you enjoy the novels of Michael Koryta or Tana French's The Secret Place ... you might eat up Stallo.' (Chicago Tribune)
A truly frightening descent into the old myths of Europe. (Catholic Herald)
Book Description
A terrifying supernatural thriller for fans of Let the Right One In, The Passage, and Salem's Lot.
9780571296804
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra,Kochi
Fiction
Crime Fiction
F / SPJ/SU
STALLO : Supernatural Thriller Stefan Spjut - 1 - London Faber&Faber 2015/01/01 - 587
Summer 1978. A young boy disappears without a trace from a summer cabin. His mother claims that he was carried away by a giant. He is never found.
Twenty-five years later, another child goes missing. This time there’s a lead, a single photograph taken by Susso Myren. She has devoted her life to the search for trolls, legendary giants known as stallo who can control human thoughts and assume animal form. Convinced that trolls are real, she follows the trail of missing children to northern Sweden. But humans, some part stallo themselves, have been watching over the creatures for generations, and this hidden society of protectors won’t hesitate to close its deadly ranks.
Review
Dark and thrilling ... Like King, Spjut ... has an ability to make you believe in the unbelievable. Yet Spjut is a simpler, elegant writer - he not only captures the everyday world but effortlessly interweaves his fantastic creatures into the story without startling you out of the fiction. He's scary too, very scary. Never mind Scandi crime ficction, the time has come for Scandi horror. (Metro)
A deeply evocative tale that draws you to a place where human nature is threatened by the chilling darkness of the supernatural. (Thomas Alfredson, Director of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY)
A fantastic novel in every sense of the word. I was enthralled from the very first page, not only because the story is intensely riveting and constantly surprising . . . but also because he writes in a language that captures the everyday life we otherwise know inside and out. (Karl Ove Knausgaard)
'Spine tingling. This spooky novel is great for open-minded mystery/thriller readers who enjoy a bit of genre blending as well as fantasy fans.' (Library Journal)
Spjut turns Scandinavian mythology upside down in a shades-of-gray world built for lovers of fantastical suspense. (PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY)
'A fun, cunning crime thriller...If you enjoy the novels of Michael Koryta or Tana French's The Secret Place ... you might eat up Stallo.' (Chicago Tribune)
A truly frightening descent into the old myths of Europe. (Catholic Herald)
Book Description
A terrifying supernatural thriller for fans of Let the Right One In, The Passage, and Salem's Lot.
9780571296804
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra,Kochi
Fiction
Crime Fiction
F / SPJ/SU