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    The Night Crossing
    The Night Crossing
    The Night Crossing
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Night Crossing

    Written by Robert Masello

    Narrated by Gary Furlong

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    About this audiobook

    Bram Stoker kept secret a tale even more terrifying than Dracula.

    It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London, unaware of its dangerous power…or that an evil beyond imagining has already taken root in the city.

    Stoker, a successful theater manager but frustrated writer, is drawn into a deadly web spun by the wealthy founders of a mission house for the poor. Far from a safe haven, the mission harbors a dark and terrifying secret.

    To save the souls of thousands, Stoker—aided by the explorer and a match girl grieving the loss of her child—must pursue an enemy as ancient as the Saharan sands where it originated. Their journey will take them through the city’s overgrown graveyards and rat-infested tunnels and even onto the maiden voyage of the world’s first “unsinkable” ship…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9781978617735
    The Night Crossing
    Author

    Robert Masello

    Robert Masello is an award-winning journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of many novels and nonfiction books. His historical thrillers with a supernatural bent have been published in seventeen languages and include The Night Crossing, The Jekyll Revelation, The Romanov Cross, The Medusa Amulet, Blood and Ice, and the Amazon Charts bestseller The Einstein Prophecy. His articles and essays have appeared in such prominent publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, New York magazine, People, Newsday, Parade, Glamour, Town & Country, Travel + Leisure, and the Wilson Quarterly. An honors graduate of Princeton University, Masello has also taught and lectured nationwide, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to Claremont McKenna College, where he served as visiting lecturer in literature for six years. A long-standing member of the Writers Guild of America, he now lives in Santa Monica, California. You may visit him at www.robertmasello.com.

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    • 4/5
      This is a bit of a delightful romp for anyone who enjoys Victorian penny dreadfuls!
    • 4/5
      This is my third book by Masello and I have now become a fan. While I still think "Einstein's Prophecy" is the best of the ones I've read, this one is an extremely close second. As a historian and a history teacher I appreciate Masellos' impeccable historical research and how seamlessly he blends fictional characters and events into a flow with the historical ones. His plots are always well thought and well developed and executed in such a way that it is sometimes difficult to see where the fiction ends and the history begins. But it is his characters that truly define his work, in my opinion. His characters are captivating and always fully fleshed out and again the fictional ones engage the historical without any gaps. And even the historical figures, while accurately being reproduced, are rounded out in ways that one could just imagine that that was their actual personality. In this story Bram Stoker, author of "Dracula" pursues some real life evil that steals life from others. With Mina Harcourt, the two strive to bring an end to the evil ways of Bartholomew and Winifred Thorne. Believing they have succeeded they discover rather that the Thornes have eluded them and now have a precious Egyptian artifact that was stolen from Mina that has further enhanced their power. Discovering, years later, that the Thornes are still alive, Mina and Stoker pledge to pursue them - either to their deaths or the Thones'. This one is a page turner and will keep the reader enthralled to the very end.

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    • 4/5
      In trying to figure out whose story this is I ultimately decided it didn’t matter because it is fascinating with richly drawn characters and creative twists, turns parallels and perpendiculars. It is historical, it is supernatural, it is mystical, it is a little out there.The story opens in 1895 with a group of three men and one woman trekking up a Carpathian peak searching for the Bucegi Sphinx. The leader of the photographic expedition is Minerva Harcourt. Her crew is of a questionable nature. But the expedition finds more than the sphinx. Taking refuge from a storm in a cave a skeleton is found clutching a small gold box. And you can be sure the little gold box is going to be stolen, passed off and changed hands many times.Bram Stoker, graduate of Trinity College, manager of the Lyceum Theater, general factotum for the great actor, Henry Irving, and member of the illustrious Beefsteak Club, and future author of Dracula, is walking home when he happens upon a young woman, Lucinda Watts, who has thrown herself into the Thames. We find out that she is a match girl at the mission house.Bartholomew Thorne and his sister Winifred known as The Matron of the mission house represent all things evil.Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Gilbert and Sullivan, the unsinkable Molly Brown all make appearances.Sound a bit disjointed? Maybe but it all gets pulled together if a little fantastically. I enjoyed this book and I thank NetGalley and 47North for a copy.