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Summary: Hell Of A Read
Review: Rapture novels as a genre first got rolling in the 1830s. My own earliest exposure to this field of religious fantasy was the discovery, in the 1950s, of Sydney Watson's gloriously wacky "In The Twinkling Of An Eye," penned in 1916. In it Watson's protagonist, a Jewish newspaper reporter, finds himself stranded on an Earth given over to satanic forces after its Christian population is "raptured" to heaven. Among the results of this radical regime change, aside from Bible burning and the extermination of rabbis in the newly reconstituted Israel, is an upswing in popularity of modern art, public nudity, jazz, and racial integration! Yow!Despite the campiness of Watson's early 20th century biases, the novel holds to its major horror: being left behind and unredeemed. You've had your chance; you didn't believe. You were wrong; you've blown it! No hope, Clyde: you're damned! Mark E. Rogers reopens these particular gates of hell in this Infinity reissue of his 1989 novel, "The Dead," where his protagonists, the dysfunctional Holland family, face the same hopeless dilemma. The Dead is a truly horrifying reading experience as the world of the living is systematically overwhelmed by the walking dead, the minions of Satan's lieutenant, Legion. Rogers, an accomplished illustrator, brings his considerable skills to paint a believable
picture of apocalypse, a well constructed book you'll find hard to put down.
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