Reviews for The Uncanny

The average rating for The Uncanny based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-01 00:00:00 Vickie Brinkman 4 stars--I really liked it. What a fun little horror novel. I thought it was going to be a ghost story--and it was--but it was also about horror movies and cults and family and love and loss as well. I really enjoyed the "vintage" ghost stories interspersed in this novel, and also enjoyed the hunt for and descriptions of magical artifacts (adding an element of DaVinci-Code type thriller to this book). Though some of the dialogue is dated in parts and you have to suspend a lot of disbelief, overall I had a good time reading this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-11-19 00:00:00 Alex Saiz I picked this book up on a whim while looking for a book by another author who, by the laws of alphabetical order was right next to The Uncanny. The title seemed interesting as did the cover. NEver judge a book by its cover, isn't that what they say? Whoever the mysterious 'they' are who uttered that phrase, they're completely correct. I don't always write reviews, more often than not I do, but I felt compelled to say just how bad this book was. It DID have potential. A mystery wrapped around famous old paintings and ghost stories, secret societies performing black masses, people killed in horrible ways, an american in England...totally the fish out of water. But as time goes on it just spirals more and more out of control. I don't want to give away too much, but this almost seems like a tongue in cheek homage to bad and very cliched horror movies. Even the protagonist goes so far as to say that the situations he's finding himself in are so cliched, even movie studios wouldn't commit them to film. I don't mind suspending disbeleif, but with some very annoying characters, a villain who summons a mental image of a bad guy in a black hat, twirling his moustache in an evil way while standing over a damsel in distress and some very campy dialogue..well, you get the picture... actually, the best parts of the book are the old ghost stories that they find on the course of their investigation...those were actually pretty good little reads... the rest of the book however? Disappointing...