Walking

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The dead are getting restless...

Across the country, they have risen. And they seem to have a mission....

The walking has begun...

No one knows why they are walking. No one knows where they are going. And no one can stop them....

They are here.

From the acclaimed author of The Store, The Ignored, and The Town comes The Walking-and it's going to make Bram Stoker Award-winner Bentley Little the biggest name in horror. He's already got the critics screaming....

Bentley Little...

"...grabs the reader and yanks him along on a terrifying ride."-Gary Brandner

"...keeps the high-tension jolts coming...unlike anything else in popular fiction."-Stephen King

"...has created nothing less than a nightmarishly brilliant tour de force of modern life in America."-Publishers Weekly

"...is must reading for Koontz fans."-Harriet Klausner

"...is thinking person's horror." -Los Angeles Times

"...is a must for those who like horror with a bite." -Richard Layman

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

The overwhelming sense of doom with which Little (The Revelation) imbues his newest novel is so palpable it seems to rise from the book like mist. Flowing seamlessly between time and place (from the present-day hassles of HMOs to the once-uncharted territory of the American West), the Bram Stoker Award- winning author's ability to transfix his audience while relinquishing scant details about the foreboding evil is superb. Private investigator Miles Huerdeen is on a mission to find a link between the victims in a bizarre nationwide string of deaths dating back decades, his own recurring nightmares and an elderly client's prophetic handwritten list of dead men's names. Miles's world is suddenly turned upside down when he discovers his own father--who suffered a fatal stroke--purposefully striding around his bedroom, naked except for a pair of cowboy boots, having scared off his "God-Fearing Christian" nurse. Miles's obsession with his father's transformation into a zombie leads him to the families of other dead "walkers" and on a supernatural journey into the Arizona desert. Readers will gladly suspend disbelief for Little's deft touch for the terrifying, as he slowly reveals a shocking connection between the mindless army of reanimated corpses and their ultimate destination, Wolf Canyon, formerly a government-sponsored witch colony, where a vengeful resident's evil powers have yet to be fully unleashed. If booksellers are on their toes, they'll tell readers that Stephen King, a big fan of Little's work, was reading another book by this author at the time of his infamous accident. This novel has the potential to be a major sleeper in the horror category. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Miles Huerdeen's father dies of a stroke and becomes one of the Walkers, dead humans compelled by some inexplicable homing instinct to travel to a rendezvous in the canyon country of the Southwest. Little evokes an uncanny sense of horror in his macabre tale of ancient evils loose in the modern world. Fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz should welcome the appearance of a new crafter of contemporary horror with an old-fashioned feel. For most horror and dark fantasy collections. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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