Mark Samuelas - The Face of Twilight (pb)

[lain]

The Face of Twilight by Mark Samuels - paperback edition.

Limited and signed edition of 500 copies. This is copy number 84.

Published by PS Publishing in 2006.

SOLD

I wish some enterprising publisher would pay money to reprint this long overlooked short novel.



I'd actually forgotten there was a paperback edition.

Mark Samuel(a?)s

[lain]

Yes, I noticed the mistake in the title, but that was the only thing I couldn´t edit. I assume that everyone on this lists knows who I am talking about anyway.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by mark_samuels

I wish some enterprising publisher would pay money to reprint this long overlooked short novel. I'd actually forgotten there was a paperback edition. Mark Samuel(a?)s

This has been done:

The Face of Twilight: Amazon.co.uk: Mark Samuels: 9781539997566: Books

 

The Face of Twilight: Amazon.co.uk: Mark Samuels: 9781539997566: Books

I continue with my real-time review and have a theory about the name Stymm:
The Face of Twilight Mark Samuels | The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews

[Druidic]

From my 2013 mini-review of TFOT:


I finally got my hands on Mark Samuels The Face of Twilight and found it to be as engrossing, unsettling and as starkly horrific as his short stories. In it the living are being replaced by the dead; murder victims are being found, bodies horribly mutilated with carved occult symbols. A character called Conrad Stymm, a small man with a terribly scarred head, attired in a long raincoat, often carrying a heavy black leather bag, seems the natural suspect for such barbarism. (This Ripper-like figure could have been played brilliantly by the great Peter Lorre). This short novel contains the kind of visceral horror that’s rare in Samuels shorter fiction; and some of the descriptions are intensely horrific and physically disgusting, though never in a gratuitous sense.
The Face of Twilight is replete with truly nightmarish episodes, adroitly described, such as a hospital where the healthy visit and never leave, being transformed instead into sick, ghastly broken things. There’s the sinister website that posts numerous haunting images of urban desolation…and allows the protagonist to put together a strange map leading to a deserted and rundown T.V. station that may still be broadcasting some very sinister programming. The book’s final revelation/conclusion is appropriately hellish, and I think this may well be Samuels most underrated book.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Druidic

From my 2013 mini-review of TFOT: I finally got my hands on Mark Samuels The Face of Twilight and found it to be as engrossing, unsettling and as starkly horrific as his short stories. In it the living are being replaced by the dead; murder victims are being found, bodies horribly mutilated with carved occult symbols. A character called Conrad Stymm, a small man with a terribly scarred head, attired in a long raincoat, often carrying a heavy black leather bag, seems the natural suspect for such barbarism. (This Ripper-like figure could have been played brilliantly by the great Peter Lorre). This short novel contains the kind of visceral horror that’s rare in Samuels shorter fiction; and some of the descriptions are intensely horrific and physically disgusting, though never in a gratuitous sense. The Face of Twilight is replete with truly nightmarish episodes, adroitly described, such as a hospital where the healthy visit and never leave, being transformed instead into sick, ghastly broken things. There’s the sinister website that posts numerous haunting images of urban desolation…and allows the protagonist to put together a strange map leading to a deserted and rundown T.V. station that may still be broadcasting some very sinister programming. The book’s final revelation/conclusion is appropriately hellish, and I think this may well be Samuels most underrated book.

A good review with which I agree.
I have just finished my own review at link above.