Helpful Score: 4
disturbing...but i couldn't put it down!
Helpful Score: 3
If you like your horror stories with a lot of gore, you will like this one.
Helpful Score: 2
Not the best Clegg story. A man summons his old friends back to town to finish a brutal ritual started back in high school.
Helpful Score: 2
Scarry and thought provoking. I would recommend it.
A man who calls himself the Desolation Angel draws his old friends back to their hometown where 20 years ago three boys committed a savage ritual that ripped apart their minds. In a cavern known as No Man's Land, something has been waiting a long time for those who stole something more precious than life itself. From the author of "Nightmare Chronicles."
Between the California desert towns of Palmetto and Nitro lurks an evil that is more powerful, more terrifying than anyone can possibly imagine. But there is no need to imagine it, for several of the townspeople will experience it firsthand. For it is here that the primordial demon, Lamia, makes herself known. She appears for the first time in 1980, and before she's done, Palmetto will be a burned-out shell of a town, most of its tenants seemingly vaporized in a catastrophic fire. Only a handful will survive the encounter all teenagers at the time but survival is not enough. For they have committed a deed so heinous, so utterly shocking, that it will haunt them for the rest of their lives. And Lamia is neither gone nor defeated, only subdued. The survivors have taken something from her. And she will stop at nothing to get it back.
Twenty yearslater,Lamia calls to them. It starts with a dead body left on the stairs of a church. Then come the nightmare visions that are all too real. The survivors know there will be no escape, that they must return to the burned-out ruins of Palmetto to confront and destroy the most frightening force imaginable. They know their chances of success are miniscule, that it would be wiser to run and try to escape. But they can't. Despite their best efforts to resist, they are powerless not to come when she calls.
Twenty yearslater,Lamia calls to them. It starts with a dead body left on the stairs of a church. Then come the nightmare visions that are all too real. The survivors know there will be no escape, that they must return to the burned-out ruins of Palmetto to confront and destroy the most frightening force imaginable. They know their chances of success are miniscule, that it would be wiser to run and try to escape. But they can't. Despite their best efforts to resist, they are powerless not to come when she calls.
An epic tale of horror, spanning twenty years in the lives of four friends?witnesses to unearthly terror. The high desert town of Palmetto, California, has turned toxic after twenty years of nightmares. In Los Angeles, a woman is tormented by visions from a chilling past, and a man steps into a house of torture. On the steps of a church, a young woman has been sacrificed in a ritual of darkness. In New York, a cab driver dreams of demons while awake. And a man who calls himself the Desolation Angel has returned to draw his old friends back to their hometown?a town where, two decades earlier, three boys committed the most brutal of rituals, an act of such intense savagery that it has ripped apart their minds. And where, in a cavern in a place called No Man's Land, something has been waiting a long time for those who stole something more precious than life itself.
From the Publisher
A novel 12 years in the making, You Come When I Call You is an epic tale of horror, spanning 20 years in the lives of four friends -- witnesses to unearthly terror...
The high desert town of Palmetto, California, has turned toxic after twenty years of nightmares -- In Los Angeles, a woman is tormented by visions from a horrifying past, and a man steps into a house of torture.
-- On the steps of a church called The Sacrament of the Sacred Heart, a young woman has been sacrificed in a ritual of darkness -- In New York, a cab driver dreams awake of the territory of demons -- And an old friend who calls himself the Desolation Angel has returned to draw them back to their hometown...
Where, two decades earlier, three boys committed the most brutal of rituals, an act of such intense savagery that it has ripped apart their minds -- where an entire town burned against a scarlet sunset -- And where, in a cavern in a place called No Man's Land, something has been waiting a long time for those who stole something more precious than life itself.
A novel 12 years in the making, You Come When I Call You is an epic tale of horror, spanning 20 years in the lives of four friends -- witnesses to unearthly terror...
The high desert town of Palmetto, California, has turned toxic after twenty years of nightmares -- In Los Angeles, a woman is tormented by visions from a horrifying past, and a man steps into a house of torture.
-- On the steps of a church called The Sacrament of the Sacred Heart, a young woman has been sacrificed in a ritual of darkness -- In New York, a cab driver dreams awake of the territory of demons -- And an old friend who calls himself the Desolation Angel has returned to draw them back to their hometown...
Where, two decades earlier, three boys committed the most brutal of rituals, an act of such intense savagery that it has ripped apart their minds -- where an entire town burned against a scarlet sunset -- And where, in a cavern in a place called No Man's Land, something has been waiting a long time for those who stole something more precious than life itself.
From the back of the book:
The high desert town of Palmetto, California, has turned toxic after twenty years of nightmares. In Los Angeles, a woman is tormented by visions from a chilling past, and a man steps into a house of torture. On the steps of a church, a young woman has been sacrificed in a ritual of darkness. In New York, a cab driver dreams of demons while awake.
And a man who calls himself the Desolation Angel has returned to draw his old friends back to their home-town - a town where, two decades earlier, three boys committed the most brutal of rituals, an act of such intense savagery that it has ripped apart their minds. And where, in a cavern in a place called No Man's Land, something has been waiting a long time for those who stole something more precious than life itself.
The high desert town of Palmetto, California, has turned toxic after twenty years of nightmares. In Los Angeles, a woman is tormented by visions from a chilling past, and a man steps into a house of torture. On the steps of a church, a young woman has been sacrificed in a ritual of darkness. In New York, a cab driver dreams of demons while awake.
And a man who calls himself the Desolation Angel has returned to draw his old friends back to their home-town - a town where, two decades earlier, three boys committed the most brutal of rituals, an act of such intense savagery that it has ripped apart their minds. And where, in a cavern in a place called No Man's Land, something has been waiting a long time for those who stole something more precious than life itself.
