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Originally Posted by koland
After looking at the description and an author interview, this seems to be a long serialized novel, not six novels in one. Originally published in six parts (and seriously overpriced in paperback, it appears). Anyone whose read it?
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I read it in installments when it first came out. Like Stephen King's The Green Mile, it was published in short paperbacks that came out one month after the other. It had some fun parts, but it's no Green Mile.
It reminded me more of 1980s horror novels with haunted antiques.
It has been a while since I read it, but I seem to remember liking the first couple of parts better -- I think because I liked the stories involving the old asylum and the doll and the locket better. However, long-time fans of John Saul may have liked it more because some of the characters of his previous novels appeared in the installments -- at least those who survived.
For example, one of the priests from Punish the Sinners appears in the stories.
You can read a couple of excerpts on the official Blackstone Chroncicles site at Random House. For example:
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/.../locketex.html
and
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/...locketex2.html