The Evil in Asheville

by Joshua P. Warren

From the award-winning author of HAUNTED ASHEVILLE comes a novel of mystery and the occult . . . Asheville has a secret. It stays locked away in a room, deep within a demonic castle, looming darkly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595122264
• ISBN13: 9780595122264
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Throwback Thrills and Chills

"The Evil in Asheville" is not a book in tune with the stylistics of contemporary horror writing. With the exception of a few "regular folks" pulled into the mix by author Warren, this novel is about larger-than-life characters involved in a larger than life struggle of Good vs. Evil, and the evil here is depicted AS evil...not as the trials and tribulations of misunderstood sexy vampires and werewolves. This is not a book Goths would flock to. Instead this is a bit of a throwback kind of a novel, one that harkens more to Stoker's "Dracula" than to Rice's "Lestat", and one which carries more the tone of H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Leslie Bellem, or Clark Ashton Smith here (or any number of writers from the old days at "Weird Tales" magazine) than anything resembling, say, King or Koontz, or James Herbert. The story is simple. There is a powerful Old Money/Old Strong Influence family in Asheville, NC...the Borleys...and they wield a certain unhealthy influence over the city that is not benign at all, yet is also not readily apparent. And this influence does not wane over the years. It grows. The Borleys live in a dark "castle" of a mansion that looms on a hillside looking out on the city and getting inside that disquieting-looking abode of theirs is known to about like trying to gain access to the gold depository at Fort Knox. It ain't easy. There is also a legend about a "something" that lives in one of the rooms deep inside the "castle"; a supposedly horrific something (called by some "The Horror") that is perpetually sealed off from view. Like the famous "monster" of Glamis Castlein Scotland, its identity is not to be known. Is it a frightfully deformed family member? Who knows? Who can say? There IS something there, actually. It is timeless and evil. It calls itself the Sate. The name is somewhat apropos. It does not imply a contraction of "Satan", but , rather, refers to the English word "Sate" (from which "satiated" comes). It means "having one's wants and desires fulfilled to the point of gluttony or revulsion"....and gluttony IS one of the "Seven Deadly Sins", is it not? The Sate makes bargains and deals with people. It brings them what they want. For a price.It is a Faustian price, but one the Borleys are quite content to keep on paying. Into all this comes a mysterious stranger.He calls himself only "Kane". He is distant, aloof, enigmatic, and seemingly DRIVEN. He has come (or has been SENT) to deal with these Borleys and whatever it is they have dwelling with them. Who is he? Is he Robert E. Howard's "Solomon Kane", the Puritan demon-fighter, grown somehow immortal? Is he some kind of angel or demi-being sent out to confront evil in every form? Good question. He fits perfectly the classic "Mysterious Stranger" format of "Weird Tales" type stories from days gone buy. In such instances a mysterious occultist would often arrive to save the day for the regular folks who hadn't a clue abou

The Evil in Asheville

This was a great book. I did not want to put it down.