"When a man is lost, who but his ghosts will find him?"

[joysilence]

Well I finished Jonathan Aycliffe's The Lost in about half the expected time, as I found it ridiculously readable. This is partly due, I think, to the way the novel is made up entirely of letters, tape recorder transcripts and telegrams - just like a certain Bram Stoker vampire classic I could mention... This format seems to have almost entirely died out since the heyday of Stoker and Wilkie Collins, which is such a shame, and I was very glad to see the technique resurrected so well. Talking of resurrection,I'd better get back to the actual story. ( Read more... )