Description
The first hundred pages of The Strain is a sustained exercise in terror that held this reader in spellbound delight, because Del Toro and Hogan write with crisp authenticity about both the fantastical (vampires) and the completely real (New York City, with all its odd nooks and crannies). What began in The Strain comes to a sublimely satisfying conclusion in The Night Eternal. --Stephen King
If you have read the first two volumes in this smashing new trilogy about a worldwide vampire plague set mainly in New York, I need only tell you that the third and final volume is now in stores. . . . the only truly worthy successor to Anne Rice's beautifully composed vampire chronicles. . . . Del Toro's fabulous visual imagination and Hogan's narrative pacing . . . provide nearly a thousand pages of shadowy and dangerous entertainment. . . . The novel is an art form in which special effects come cheap. In the hands of Del Toro and Hogan, the chills and thrills of supernatural terror create such inevitability that while reading their book I feared that, when a cloud passed over the face of the sun, light might never return. --San Francisco Chronicle
[T]he prose crackles, the plot barrels forward with increasing momentum and the authors knack for thoughtful horror and striking imagery remains intact. A satisfying conclusion to an intelligent, utterly chilling horror trilogy. --Kirkus Reviews
If you have read the first two volumes in this smashing new trilogy about a worldwide vampire plague set mainly in New York, I need only tell you that the third and final volume is now in stores. . . . the only truly worthy successor to Anne Rice's beautifully composed vampire chronicles. . . . Del Toro's fabulous visual imagination and Hogan's narrative pacing . . . provide nearly a thousand pages of shadowy and dangerous entertainment. . . . The novel is an art form in which special effects come cheap. In the hands of Del Toro and Hogan, the chills and thrills of supernatural terror create such inevitability that while reading their book I feared that, when a cloud passed over the face of the sun, light might never return. --San Francisco Chronicle
[T]he prose crackles, the plot barrels forward with increasing momentum and the authors knack for thoughtful horror and striking imagery remains intact. A satisfying conclusion to an intelligent, utterly chilling horror trilogy. --Kirkus Reviews
Présentation de l'éditeur
The third and final novel in the stunning New York Times bestselling trilogy--about a vampire invasion and the band of men and women who must stop them--by one of Hollywood's most popular and imaginative storytellers, the creator of the Oscar-winning Pan's Labyrinth.
Following the horrific conclusion of events in The Fall, Nuclear Winter blankets the land, darkening the Earth but for one hour of sunlight each day. And it is no coincidence that these conditions create a near-perfect environment for vampires. They have won, they have control of the planet, and humans have been entirely subjugated, interred in vast camps across the world, where--herded like livestock--they are farmed and harvested for the sustenance and pleasure of the Master Race.
A ragtag network of free humans continues the desperate resistance and is made up of everyday people, among them Eph, head of the CDC's team; Vasiliy, the colorful Russian exterminator; and Gus, the former gangbanger with a special talent for dispatching the undead. It's their job to disrupt the devastating new world order and battle the Master and his minions at every turn. But to succeed, the humans will have to rely on the intervention of an unexpected race of beings--creatures that give new meaning to the phrase angels--in the ultimate battle to reclaim and rehabilitate the planet for all humanity.
Following the horrific conclusion of events in The Fall, Nuclear Winter blankets the land, darkening the Earth but for one hour of sunlight each day. And it is no coincidence that these conditions create a near-perfect environment for vampires. They have won, they have control of the planet, and humans have been entirely subjugated, interred in vast camps across the world, where--herded like livestock--they are farmed and harvested for the sustenance and pleasure of the Master Race.
A ragtag network of free humans continues the desperate resistance and is made up of everyday people, among them Eph, head of the CDC's team; Vasiliy, the colorful Russian exterminator; and Gus, the former gangbanger with a special talent for dispatching the undead. It's their job to disrupt the devastating new world order and battle the Master and his minions at every turn. But to succeed, the humans will have to rely on the intervention of an unexpected race of beings--creatures that give new meaning to the phrase angels--in the ultimate battle to reclaim and rehabilitate the planet for all humanity.
