Genre : Horror Published : 2001 Format : Paperback Pages : 686

“Perhaps it isn’t just that the leaves and petals are bitter . Perhaps there are too many whisperings in the air around the ruined gazebos , and the animals are unnerved by what they hear . Perhaps there are too many presences brushing against their trembling flanks as they explore the clotted pathways . Perhaps , as they graze the overgrown lawns , they look up and mistake a statue for a pale fragment of life , and are startled by their error , and take flight . Perhaps , sometimes , they are not mistaken . “

Summary : Meet Todd Pickett , one of the biggest action stars around . Or at least he was . See , his last couple of films didn’t do so well and the producer that helped him become a big name just died . Now his next movie isn’t being made , his dog dies of cancer , and on top of that he is feeling insecure about his looks . In order to help solve the last issue he decides to get a face lift and … it goes wrong . He ends up having to isolate himself in order to let his face heal . An old Hollywood insider recommends a house in a hard to find canyon . This house used to belong to a silent film star named Katya Lupi and she apparently was quite hedonistic and she also doesn’t seem to be dead . In fact , she doesn’t seem to have aged at all and she has taken a liking to one Todd Pickett and sets to seducing him to stay with her in Coldheart Canyon . Come read this story filled with ghosts , abominations , every sexual fetish imaginable , cursed tiles , monks , hunters , Hollywood agents , stalkers , goat boys , and Lilith .

“I’m sorry . It was rude of me : Watching you , I mean . Spying . You’ve as much right to your privacy as I have to mine . And it’s hard to protect yourself sometimes . You don’t know who’s a friend and who’s not . That can make you crazy . “

Review : What do you get when you combine a haunted house , BDSM zombies , Jewish mythos , cursed objects , and a healthy dose of satire aimed at Hollywood ? You get this book . I would not recommend this book for horror newbies . However , I personally loved it and would suggest it for the more hardcore individuals .

“Some nights I’m so crazy I’m ready to hang myself . But I don’t . You know why ? I made this hell for myself , so it’s up to me live in it , isn’t it ?”

Recommendations : Books

1. Earthbound by Richard Matheson
2. The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
3. Invader Summer by Hideyuki Kikuchi
4. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
5. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Songs

• 1. My Way – Limp Bizkit
• 2. Dani California – Red Hot Chili Peppers
• 3. I wanna be loved by you – Helen Kane
• 4. Ever Since The Movies Learned To Talk – Billy Murray
• 5. Ghosts – Michael Jackson
• 6. The Show Must Go On – Queen

Movies

1.My Name Is Bruce (2007)

2.Lullaby (2022)

3. Sparrows (1926)

4. A Fool There Was (1915)

5. Erotikon (1929)

6. Mortal Kombat (1995)

7 . The Amityville Horror (1979)

Lesson : Never trust Hollywood agents and people that never seem to age .