The Everlasting

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The Everlasting
Tim Lebbon
Leisure, May 2007, $6.99, 325 pp.
ISBN 0843954299

As a youngster Scott spent a lot of time with his grandfather who he calls Papa. Although he didn’t know it at the time, Papa imparted a lot of arcane knowledge into Scott’s memory so that he will be able to remember it when he needs it. Scott’s time with Papa comes to an end when his grandfather kills his best friend Lewis and then kills himself. Scott sees Lewis after his death and asks him for the Chord of Souls.

Scott doesn’t know what he is talking about and tries to forget the encounter ever happened. Three decades later, happily married to Helen, Scot receives a letter from Papa and Lewis appears and tells him that he must find the Chord of Souls. He kidnaps Helen and takes her into the Wide, a vast passageway to the afterlife. Nina, one of twelve immortals guides Scott on his journey because she wants him to find the Chord of Souls as she wants to learn how to die after living for several millennia. Although he doesn’t trust Nina he follows her to a point until he no longer needs her and starts out on his own to find a way to the valley that doesn’t exist where the House of Skulls contains the Chord of Souls, danger stalking him every step of way.

Tim Lebbon is one of the premiere writers of horror novels. Tucked within the horror storyline is the romantic subplot between Scott and Helen that is critical because it is his love for her that gives him the motive and impulses needed to search for the Chord of Souls while dealing with bad Mojo and immortals who think differently so are undependable. The EVERLASTING is an intellectual horror novel that makes the audience question their own beliefs.
 
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