
Little Heaven
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Corey Brill
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By:
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Nick Cutter
An all-new epic tale of terror and redemption set in the hinterlands of midcentury New Mexico from the acclaimed author of The Troop - which Stephen King raved "scared the hell out of me and I couldn't put it down...old-school horror at its best."
From electrifying horror author Nick Cutter comes a haunting new novel, reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Stephen King's It, in which a trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman for a deceptively simple task: check in on her nephew, who may have been taken against his will to a remote New Mexico backwoods settlement called Little Heaven. Shortly after they arrive, things begin to turn ominous. Stirrings in the woods and over the treetops - the brooding shape of a monolith known as the Black Rock casts its terrible pall. Paranoia and distrust grips the settlement. The escape routes are gradually cut off as events spiral towards madness. Hell - or the closest thing to it - invades Little Heaven. The remaining occupants are forced to take a stand and fight back, but whatever has cast its dark eye on Little Heaven is now marshaling its powers...and it wants them all.
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Nick Cutter has three major horror novels out right now, The Troop, The Deep, and Little Heaven. The troop was reviewed the most strongly, and carried some pretty high recommendations, but I decided to start with Little Heaven, since 1. It's the longest of the three, and 2. It was described as more ambitious and weighty than the other two, and that intrigued me.
When I read the description for Little Heaven, I had no idea that it carried any supernatural elements. It sounded to me like it was about a fanatical murderous religious cult and that was the source of the horror. It definitely does contain a murderous religious cult, but it ended up breaking my expectations on that front by really diving into the nuances of the characters in Little Heaven, and then surprising me even further by focusing much of the horror on grotesque, Lovecraftian monsters, that, if you've watched Rick and Morty, you might want to describe as Cronenbergs.
The plot centers around three main characters, all deadly guns for hire, and splits itself between the "past" (1960s) and the "present" (1980s). In the 1960s, three ruthless hired thugs are all contracted to kill each other, but end up developing an uneasy friendship and a professional working relationship as mercenaries throughout the American West.
Eventually, a woman hires them to rescue her nephew from a religious cult that's created an isolated survivalist compound in the remote wilderness of New Mexico. They all go to the compound, called Little Heaven, and find the boy, only to find that there's much stranger stuff going on than just a group of oddly devout people.
I won't go any more in-depth than that to avoid spoilers but like I said, Lovecraftian horror, and Cronenberg monsters.
On Wikipedia, it says that Craig Davidson's prose has been compared to that of Chuck Palahniuk. I definitely don't get that impression from this book, but I do feel he's trying really hard to channel Cormac McCarthy, because essentially every writer wants to be Cormac McCarthy. If you're setting something in the American West, you're probably trying to emulate Cormac McCarthy.
Part of this feels like it was trying to be a Western, but couldn't quite get there. Although many of the characters fit the motif for a bleak Clint Eastwood style Western.
In addition, despite the book being set in the 20th century, many parts of it feel a little distant from modern American culture. It just feels different in some ways, like this is an alternate version of America, where the old west never really died, even into the 1980s.
The book does feel ambitious for a horror title. It has religion as a central theme, but doesn't just rail on the evils of organized religion like so many horror books do. It takes on other weighty subjects too, such as human nature, the clash between heroism and cowardice, and heroism and greed, within a person's soul, and it handles these themes better than I would have expected it to.
The novel does take a little while to get started, and the descriptive prose can run a little long-winded sometimes, which I know it's taken flack for. But I didn't particularly mind either of these things. I think part of that might have been the strength of Corey Brill's narration, which seemed a perfect fit for this novel.
This novel comes highly recommended from me, and I plan on checking out the rest of the Nick Cutter horror novels.
Lovecraftian horror in the American SouthWest
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A great listen!
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Scary take
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good stuff
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