Peter Straub

Brian Evenson

Forcibly recruited into an underground religious cult in order to solve a murder, detective Kline weaves through a maze of lies, threats, and misinformation involving stakes that are much higher than he anticipated. By the author of The Wavering Knife. Original.

Last Days

Jordan

a bunch of weirdos chopping off their limbs 

gurlene 

I‘m not sure how to rate this book. After the first 50 pages, I was seriously contemplating to stop reading, because I felt that I somehow couldn’t stomach the gore porn anymore. Gladly, I pushed through. The bizarre involuntary revenge trip the protagonist undertakes in the second half of the book was one of the most gripping and entertaining things I‘ve read. The underlying criticism of bigoted religious fanatics seeping through the whole story is just the cherry on top.

Nezumi

Last Days follows Kline, a man forcibly recruited to solve the murder of the leader of an underground amputation cult.

Alfredo santos

Really thought it was going to be scarier!

To find a cult leader’s killer, a former detective must literally give up his body in this award-winning work of literary horror—“A dark treat” (AV Club). Nominated for the Shirley Jackson award and winner of the ALA/RUSA Best Horror novel, Brian Evenson’s Last Days is an intense, profoundly unsettling down-the-rabbit-hole detective noir. Kline is a former detective who’s cool head in the face of a brutal amputation makes him the perfect candidate to infiltrate a dark cult that believes amputation brings one closer to God. Kline is tasked with finding the cult leader’s killer. But to get to the truth, Kline must lose himself—literally—one body part at a time. Last Days was first published in 2003 as a limited edition novella titled The Brotherhood of Mutilation. Its success led Evenson to expand the story into a full-length novel. In doing so, he has created a work that’s disturbing, deeply satisfying, and completely original.

Last Days

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