Tempter

By Nancy A. Collins

Book Overview

Ageing rock singer Adam Rossiter lives in New Orleans and earns a precarious living on the nostalgia circuit. A chance visit to an old voodoo shop in the French Quarter ignites his interest in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451402154
• ISBN13: 9780451402158
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Onyx Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Horror the way it should be written

In the 1970s, Alex Rossiter was a rock and roll icon on a par with Hendrix and Joplin. Thanks to drugs, Alex crashed and burned, fading into oblivion unable to get a gig or a recording contract anywhere. He recently resurfaced in New Orleans where he has developed an interest in voodoo and is initiated into a local hanfou by Papa Belovded. Not long afterward, Alex obtains a gig at the Gris-Gris Club. Alex meets an old friend Jere Sloan and the woman he loves Charlotte "Charlie: Calder. Charlie instantly wants to share sex with the musician. They go home, leaving Jere behind. Alex's brief elation dissipated once he reads "The Aegrisomnia" and becomes involved with the One-Who-Tempts, a shade residing between the living and the dead. The malevolent spirit tempts Alex to surrender his soul and destroy everyone he cherishes. Nancy A Collins does for voodoo what Anne Rice has done for vampires. The characters are fully developed making them seem authentic though pawns in a cosmic chess game played by essences much older than mankind. TEMPTER is a temptation that horror fans will want to repeatedly reread.Harriet Klausner