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John Farris

  • Steve Brackeen
1 janvier 1936
The Fury
Solar eclipse
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
When Michael Calls
Baby Moll
Furie
  • Furie

    Le cycle des pouvoirs

    • 482pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    Furie, furie…Peut-être que cela dit quelque chose à certains cinéphiles. Brian De Palma en a fait l’adaptation en 1978. Au départ, il s’agit d’un thriller de John Farris, quasiment inconnu en France, l’homme est pourtant une figure tutélaire du genre noir et adulé aux États-Unis. Il n’est jamais trop tard pour bien faire, le best-seller américain est aujourd’hui traduit chez Denoël. Il suffisait d’y penser. Un bon coup d’édition. Maître du suspense paranormal, Farris prend comme héros ces gentils petits adolescents américains si inquiétants. Prenez Robin par exemple, 10 ans tout mouillé, il est capable de vous faire retomber 47 fois sur la même face une pièce projetée en l’air. S’il avait le temps et autre chose à faire qu’à jouer au base-ball, il vous promet qu’il pourrait également faire tenir la même pièce dans les airs. Et Gillian, la petite teenager, il ne s’agit pas de la contrarier quand elle va faire du patin à glace, elle est capable de provoquer chez les autres des hémorragies foudroyantes. En vous laissant en plus une petite cicatrice en forme de croix sur le front, comme c’est charmant. Un beau jour, Robin disparaît, certainement enlevé par une organisation secrète. Son père Peter, aidé de Gillian, va se mettre à sa recherche et retrouver quelques fantômes du passé tapis dans les couloirs du ministère de la Défense et de la CIA. Furie est un classique du genre au point que Stephen King le reconnaît comme un incontournable. Farris sait progressivement faire monter la vinaigrette en mayonnaise d’hémoglobines. Et la réalité placide de devenir un soufflet gonflé de surnaturel. Let it bleed ! --Denis Gombert

    Furie
  • Baby Moll

    • 224pages
    • 8 heures de lecture
    3,7(3)Évaluer

    Six years after leaving the Mafia in Florida, Peter Mallory is drawn back in to help his old boss, who is being hunted by a brutal killer. As he returns to a secluded island, he finds himself surrounded by beautiful women and deadly threats, where one wrong move could lead to disaster.

    Baby Moll
  • When Michael Calls

    • 256pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    3,8(5)Évaluer

    Terror strikes a small town when people receive phone calls from a boy named Michael Young who died sixteen years before

    When Michael Calls
  • All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By

    • 338pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    2,8(5)Évaluer

    Set against the backdrop of a military wedding, the story follows Clipper Bradwin, the youngest son of a prestigious Virginia family led by General "Boss" Bradwin. As Clipper prepares for marriage and military service, he unwittingly steps into a legacy haunted by a dark curse rooted in ancient sorcery and bloodshed. The family's history is marred by supernatural horrors that culminate in a chilling tale of occultism and vengeance, transforming a solemn occasion into a nightmarish struggle against forces beyond their control.

    All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
  • Stuntwoman Shay Waco uses the skills of her trade to jump sixty feet and escape a drug dealer trying to kill her. After which she joins a local sheriff and goes after the dealer. By the author of Soon She Will Be Gone

    Solar eclipse
  • The Fury

    • 352pages
    • 13 heures de lecture
    2,9(64)Évaluer

    Gillian Bellaver is from one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the world. Robin Sandza's father, Peter, is one of the United States government's deadliest assassins. Gillian and Robin are from two different worlds. Outside they have nothing in common. Yet they are spiritual twins, possessors of a horrifying psychic energy that threatens humanity. While dangerous and fanatical men vie for the secrets of their awesome power, Peter Sandza, using all the ruthless skills of his trade, makes a final desperate effort to save them. But Peter himself is possessed--by a fate as implacable and as deadly as the powers of the children he is committed to protect.

    The Fury
  • The Ass's Tale

    • 208pages
    • 8 heures de lecture

    Fiction. John Farris's THE ASS'S TALE is a Rabelaisian story of a dog's search for his identity. Told in the existential down-and-dirty vein of Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed and Chester Himes, this book (in manuscript form) circulated through New York City's Lower East Side for years. John is a longtime denizen of the neighborhood; he still lives above the Bullet Space Gallery at 292 East Third Street. "Hot dog! Dirty dog! If you ever wanted to know about invisible sex, check this out!"--Steve Cannon, author of Groove, Bang, and Jive Around and Director of Gathering of Tribes Gallery.

    The Ass's Tale