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Haus Der Bösen Lust (2009)

by Edward Lee(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

3865521495 (ISBN13: 9783865521491)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Festa Verlag

review 1: "The Black Train" is the second Ed Lee book I've read. The other was "The Golem". Both stories are about atrocities committed in the past, that resonate in current times; and each presents its story by cutting back and forth between events from decades past, and the present.I would place "The Black Train" on about the same level as "The Golem"--except that I was so impressed with the ending of "Train" that I'm rating it four stars, instead of three or three-and-a-half.A beer expert from the Food Network travel to a Civil War town, Gast, in Tennessee, looking for a micro-brew to write up, in order to finish his new book. He stays in an inn that dates back to the War, and is immediately swept up in the lore of the town. We flash back to the 1850s, and are shown from vari... moreous characters' POVs, the building of a railroad by an evil overseer, Mr. Gast. The beer expert gets bad vibes from the inn, has vivid nightmares, and falls in love with a local brewer. He is put in touch with an expert on local legend, and learns about the violent history of the town and the secret purpose of the Gast railroad.This next, and last, paragraph is about the end of the book, so if you haven't read it, you can skip this part.This is an odd ghost story, full of extreme violence, including various sexual attacks and perversities, and I thought I knew the kind of conclusion Ed Lee had in mind. But instead of delivering a climactic battle or new violence to compliment the atrocities of the past, Lee gives us a subtler ending. Our hero spends one final night in the inn, and is rewarded with the most horrific nightmares of his life. He goes to find the girl he loves, leaves the inn forever, and takes the first step towards starting a life with her. Hopefully putting behind his interest in the supernatural elements of his new adopted town. Lots of bodies in the town's past, yet the climax of the story, in the present, is creepy as all hell, yet with a lack of explosions (iron works right in the backyard, after all) and death, that I didn't expect. And then Lee leaves us with a very spooky epilogue, that is, again, subtle in nature.
review 2: Much better than most Leisure Fiction horror novels, Lee has written a good old fashioned ghost story--with a lot of death and sex that should keep modern horror fans happy.In the process of a divorce a Food Network host/writer has come to a backwoods southern state town to find a local restaurant that brews its own beer. Justin Collier thinks this brew could be the final chapter of his books on beer. It is, plus the town gives him a whole lot more. The hotel he's staying in was the mansion of the town's infamous railroad builder, who used slaves to hammer down 500 miles of rail, and whose suicide and deaths that followed have hung over a the house since. Justin begins to see and hear things at night until they progress to a frightening finish.This would probably be a much more read book if it didn't have all the sex, but it actually did contribute to the plot. The violence is pretty graphic, but you expect that going into a book like this. I was surprised to see a strong Christian in this book not being made the laughing stock that other books tend to do. I'm not a religious person, by any means, but usually religion is dropped into a horror novel for ridicule, defilement, or a non-supernatural antagonist. That was not the case here, and it surprised me. I enjoyed "that" character and was impressed with that person. Be aware: there is nothing beyond approach in this book, so if something disgusts you, you were warned. If you can handle it, this was a good read and the ending a pleasant surprise. less

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