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For the town of Randall, Arizona, the terror starts quietly, oddly—a senile woman in her eighties becomes pregnant. Then the town's beloved minister mysteriously disappears, leaving his church and home hideously defiled by blasphemous obscenities scrawled in blood. Farmers going out to their fields in the morning find their herds of goats slaughtered. Then, as the terror intensifies, the farmers themselves are massacred. The town begins to smell of death, and the trust which has bound neighbors to one another turns to ashes. But the relentless tide of death is only an augury of a far more unspeakable cataclysm. A stranger arrives, an itinerant preacher with mad eyes and an elemental presence named Brother Elias. He seeks out three men: the sheriff, tough, no nonsense Jim Weldon; the new minister, a gentle God-fearing soul named Father Andrews; and Gordon Lewis, a young newlywed whose pregnant wife Marina is the unknowing center of the coming fury. Together, these people must face an implacable force of evil as old as the world and as relentless as the desert sun...
The Revelation, by Bentley Little- Amazon Sales Rank: #193872 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-19
- Released on: 2015-05-19
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From Publishers Weekly A tale of horror set in a small northern Arizona town, this first novel begins with the desecration of an Episcopal church and the disappearance of the priest and his family. Soon, other churches are defiled with obscenities written in goat's blood. Two goat farmers are killed and mutilated after their flocks are similarly destroyed. A young boy tells sheriff Jim Weldon of a dream in which he saw the death of the priest's family at the hands of demons. Meanwhile, struggling young writer Gordon Lewis and his pregnant wife, Marina, fear that she will succumb to the epidemic of miscarriages afflicting other women in the community. When the couple goes to Phoenix for prenatal tests, Gordon is warned about the coming of Satan by Brother Elias, an itinerant preacher. As evil events escalate, Brother Elias tells the sheriff, Gordon and the new Episcopal priest, psychic Father Donald Andrews, that only the four of them can save the town, but at considerable cost to themselves. Little convincingly depicts apocalyptic events. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal In Randall, Arizona, portents signal a looming disaster of apocalyptic proportions: there are stillbirths, animal sacrifices, church desecrations, and mysterious disappearances. An ancient-eyed and omniscient preacher arrives and claims that Satan is collecting the souls of the stillborn infants and murdered townspeople, causing them to commit further grotesque crimes. He recruits the sheriff, the Episcopal priest, and expectant father Gordon Lewis, whose unborn daughter is, apparently, Satan's goal, but how this will cause the apocalypse is never explained. Also unclear are the characters themselves. Although likable, they are not given enough distinct personality or motivation to indicate why they in particular should be the chosen warriors; and during the final battle, none has any unique strength or talent to offer. Unfortunately, then, there are no "revelations" here--a flimsy plot, a forgettable book.- A.M.B. Amantia, Population Crisis Committee Lib., Washington, D.C.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Excellent debut By Chris W. Bentley Little's novels are widely available in paperback, and my curiosity got the better of me. I decided to pick up "The Revelation" after discovering that it won the Bram Stoker Award. I wasn't disappointed, but I wasn't completely sold on this novel either.Randall, Arizona has become a target of vandals. One of the local churches has been desecrated, and there have been several cases of livestock mutilation. Sheriff Jim Weldon begins looking into the crimes, wondering whether they are crimes or fraud since the Reverend of the defiled church has disappeared. A young boy finds himself involved in Weldon's investigation, and seems to have information he could not possibly have regarding the Reverend.Meanwhile, local man Gordon Lewis and his wife Marina are expecting a child. Complicating this is the disturbing fact that several women in the town have suffered miscarriages, and Marina suspects there's something in the water. Or worse.A lone Preacher comes to town. Brother Elias is his name, and his mission is clear: The End is nigh, and the sinners shall suffer...The story picks up from there, with no shortage of shocks and thrills. Little is adept at bringing together a wide variety of workable characters into a bizarre situation. There isn't too much here that would be unfamiliar to a veteran horror reader, but that's part of the novel's charm. As others have pointed out, this story follows along with a "B movie" quality about it. I couldn't agree more. I felt like I was reading a tale along the lines of the movie "Tremors", complete with desert settings and over the top action sequences. The gore is plentiful, yet never outrageous. The pacing is quick, and the shock factor kept me turning the pages. Little speaks with a quick wit and describes the goings-on with gusto. I liken his writing style to early Robert McCammon.The book is not without its flaws. There are times where Little stumbles, and dishes out bits of unnecessary violence. The kitten incident is a prime example; check the other reviews for a synopsis. The ending is a lot of fun, but the horror seemed suspended in favor of a near-cartoonish bloodbath.I found out later that this was awarded the Stoker for best FIRST novel, which explained everything. For a first novel, Bentley Little scores big time. I'm going to pick up a few more from him, as he can only get sharper with his writing. I'm going to give "The Revelation" 3 1/2 stars rounding up to 4 for sharp, entertaining horror, shocking shocks, and being a quality debut that has me craving more.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. One great book!!! By A Customer Little's first book is more linear and less experimental than his later works. It's more of a straight-ahead Lovecraft pastiche than the cutting-edge social commentary of his more recent work, but the scares are here, as are the King-like syampathetic characters. And there's no skimping on the gore. One of the few first novels to win the Bram Stoker award that actually deserved it.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. A (bad) B-movie in prose By A Customer I read this asinine book while in bed with a case of influenza. It may well have delayed my recovery. The plot: Some kind of ageless evil is menacing a rural town, manifesting itself in the form of rampaging reanimated fetuses (no joke, people). After all kinds of grisly, mysterious happenings (taking up more than half of the novel) a stereotypical wild-eyed preacher, leading a small band of determined locals, shows up with a plan to save the day. Now, it should be noted that horror novels, if they are to be bothered with at all, ought to have at minimum as much merit as your average slasher movie--but it seems to me that I wasted both less money and less time watching "Scream," which at least scored a few points for decent satire. "The Revelation," conversely, is so witless, blandly written, and unimaginative (just for fun, count how many chapters end with sentences like "The last thing he heard before he blacked out...") that I can only assume that it must have been a lousy year in horror fiction for this to have won--as the front cover boasts--the Bram Stoker Award. It's also gratuitously violent; one tasteless scene involving a kitten nearly inspired me to toss the book right out the nearest window. The characters are thoroughly uninteresting; they're either cardboard cutouts (the aforementioned preacher) or so vaguely sketched that it's difficult to get a handle on them. There's no revelation here worth talking about--though it convinced me that trash fiction is no better than trash cinema.
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