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EUROPE, 1925. The continent still licks its wounds from the devastating war that raged across it a few years before. Meanwhile, in London, an ageing professor has uncovered the clues to the whereabouts of pieces of an ancient statue, all but forgotten by history. When his investigations lead him to fear for his life, he enlists the aid of an unlikely group of allies; a retired colonel, a secretive academic, a magician s wife, and a Yorkshire matriarch with her reluctant assistant. Together they will journey across Europe to recover the long-lost statue. They will travel in style, on the most luxurious train the world has ever seen. Unbeknownst to them, however, their activities have already attracted the attention of a sinister cult, desperate to acquire the artefact for their own dark purposes, and now a terrible creature, trapped for centuries, senses that the opportunity for revenge has come at last... THE EXPRESS DIARIES is a tale of a journey into darkness and horror on the world's most famous train.
- Sales Rank: #1030479 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-02-09
- Released on: 2015-02-09
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
".. shot-through with a pitch black seam of Lovecraftian horror - Nick Marsh's fast-paced chiller is a horror triumph."�-�Bizarre magazine�"I would recommend this book to anyone, if only to show how writing should be done...�It's a really good story, too, full of complexities and twists and a great big dollop of horror."�-�The Horror Zine�"This book is a must have for any fans of his [Lovecraft's] work as well as anyone who loves a good, old-fashioned horror story. 9/10"�-�Impact Online
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating Lovecraftian Adventure Horror
By Amazon Customer
This is a fun and fascinating period piece, not so much something H.P. Lovecraft himself might have written as what you might have gotten if Clark Ashton Smith had written a Bram Stoker pastiche. The narrative is largely in the form of diary entries, which normally leads to rather slow pacing, but the plot twists its way to the thrilling climax with gusto without sacrificing the excellent characterization.
Not surprisingly to anyone familiar with the role-playing adventure this is based on, "The Express Diaries" is more adventure than horror - although the moments of true horror are quite disturbing and/or disgusting. Much of the story is tinged with a slight air of the surreal. There's a fair bit of humor as well, though not quite as much as in the original source material.
As I said, this is based on a role-playing adventure. Specifically, this is based on the classic scenario "Horror on the Orient Express" for Call of Cthulhu, as played by the Bradford Players in 2008. The audio of their sessions is available at [...] and is definitely worth a listen. The novel makes some changes from the game, but a surprising amount of what made the game so entertaining makes it into the book in some form. Marsh nails the characters' voices, and the whole thing really feels like it could have been written in character by the Bradford Players.
The Kindle version is almost free of the quirks and glitches that plague most Kindle books. My one problem with reading it on my Kindle was the table of contents, which contains nothing but a list of numbers, each of which takes the reader to a footnote. Otherwise, this was a stellar e-book of a terrific adventure yarn!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderful fast paced terror and fun
By Steven V. Turner
"The Express Diaries" is a well written fun-tastic ride into adventure and terror. Much like the luxurious locomotive in the story this book picks up a head of steam and pulls the reader rapidly along page by page to it's exciting climax.
Nick Marsh has a done a masterful job of turning one of my favorite RPG adventure games into a wonderful fast paced novel. I highly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of H.P. Lovecraft's universe, The Call of Cthulhu roll playing game or 1920's era adventure stories.
I'd also love to have an audio book version read by the original players of the game, the wonderful and talented Bradford Players of yog-sothoth.com
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
I recommend this book very highly.
By David L. Brzeski
When Nick Marsh contacted me to ask me if I'd be interested in reviewing his book, I said, “Sure, just send me a Kindle copy, or a .pdf.” Nick said he'd happily send me a Kindle copy, but he'd really like to send me a copy of the hardcover too. I realised why as soon as I opened the package a few days later. The book is gorgeous! It's an obvious labour of love, from the fabulous illustrations to the red bookmark ribbon.
I hadn't realised at the time that it was based on a Call Of Cthulhu role-playing campaign. Had I known, I have to admit it might well have put me off. As a general rule, I've found books and films based on games to be disappointing. Not always—I really liked some of the 'World of Darkness' based novels for instance—but more often than not.
I'm very glad I wasn't put off, because I liked this book a lot. It's a genre mash-up, set in 1925, combining an Agatha Christie style crime thriller with H.P. Lovecraft's mythos. Nick Marsh does a superb job of capturing the period flavour in his characters. Each of them has their own voice, easily distinguished from the others, which is no mean achievement. The action is set on the Orient Express and its many stops en route. There's even a very brief, unnamed cameo from a certain Belgian detective with a waxed moustache.
The Lovecraftian elements are much more subtle than I expected. There's just the one early reference to Unaussprechlichen Kulten by von Junzt, but that's it as far as the ubiquitous tomes and entities of the Cthulhu Mythos are concerned. This is by no means a bad thing. Many would say that over-reliance on such trappings does not necessarily make for good Lovecraftian stories and they'd be right.
Apart from the beautiful presentation, the main strength of this book is in the characterisations. This is ironic in a way, because that was certainly not one of the strengths of either Christie, or Lovecraft. All the characters in 'The Express Diaries' are fully rounded, with both strengths and faults. Colonel Neville “Never” Goodenough, for instance is in many ways a typical, jingoistic, racist, military man of the period, but that doesn't stop him from being a good, stand-up hero in all other respects. He's realistically handled in the way his growing respect for particular individuals doesn't temper his opinion of foreigners in general. That particular lapse in logic is so common in many casual bigots.
As well as Colonel Goodenough, the cast of characters includes: Mrs Elisabeth (Betty) Sunderland—widowed matriarch of the Yorkshire Sunderlands with a chequered past, which includes a one-time sideline as 'The Silver Fox'; her niece, Mrs Violet Davenport –wife and assistant to the famous magician, ‘The Marvellous Davenport’; her secretary, Miss Grace Murphy—a young spinster; Professor Alphonse Moretti—an emeritus professor in European history and languages at the Universities of Florence and Belarus and Milos Valinchek—a Czechoslovakian arms dealer who was hideously scarred during the Great War.
The entire book is composed of diaries, letters and journal entries by the various characters, which is a nod to fiction of a certain vintage. It's done exceptionally well though. Much as I loved 'Dracula', I thought I'd die of boredom during the interminable exchanges of letters between Lucy and Mina. 'The Express Diaries' doesn't suffer from this at all. The book remains gripping from cover to cover. Those who like the light tone of Agatha Christie novels, however, should be warned that at times the events take on a nastiness that would scare the hell out of many of her fans, and might even cause Miss Marple to drop her knitting in horror.
I intentionally haven't said much about the plot. To put it briefly, we have a collection of fascinating characters in a classic setting; mysterious cultists and a particularly nasty monster, all trying to secure all the parts of a mysterious occult statue—The Sedefkar Simulacrum—which also has the unfortunate effect of corrupting all who possess it. The concept of a race against time with evil cultists to gather the disparate parts of some means to acquire great power is by no means new, but it's particularly well-handled in this book.
The artwork by Eric M. Smith is exceptional. Apart from the cover, there are fourteen full page color illustrations, which are presented, for the most part, in sepia tones, which gives them an even more effective period feel. There are also many black and white spot illustrations, throughout the book, of letters, photographs, tickets, telegrams and other props from the story and a beautiful, colour map of the route our heroes take on the end-papers.
I recommend this book very highly. If you can afford it, buy the hardcover. I suspect it'll be quite sought after once it goes out of print.
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