Anthony Shriek

by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Buried in the world of his own imagination, painter Anthony Shriek finds his dormant emotions awakened by the arrival of a bizarre and alluring woman whose presence turns his paintings into gateways... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440213207
• ISBN13: 9780440213208
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

A Descent Into Madness

Anthony Shriek was, in my opinion, one of the best novels to be released on the shortlived Dell Abyss line (along with Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls and Tanith Lee's Dark Dance). The story itself seems pretty simple on the surface - the beginning and end of the relationship between two troubled lovers. However, Jessica Salmonson's beautiful (and disturbing) portrait of Anthony and Emily makes the novel much more than that. Anthony's downward spiral into madness and his vulnerability is heartbreaking. Emily is complicated and strange, and also not very easy to relate to or figure out but she's interesting. I've been disappointed to see many bad reviews for this book on the internet. While it's not a perfect book it is a good example of "dark fantasy" and I would recommend it to those that usually read within that genre.