Christopher Golden
Strangewood
eBook
(Haverhill House Publishing March 5, 2018)
From two-time Stoker Award winner Christopher Golden...
As TJ Randall, he pens the tales of Strangewood, the most popular series of children's books since The Wizard of Oz. As Thomas Randall, he is a recently divorced father coping with joint custody, which permit him with only weekend visits with his young son. But when his son is hospitalized with an incurable catatonia, the reality and fantasy of Thomas's life start to merge... His son has been taken hostage into the world Randall created. Strangewood is at war.
“A new book by Christopher Golden means only one thing: the reader is in for a treat. His books are rich with texture and character, always inventive, and totally addictive.”
—Charles de Lint
"Christopher Golden gradually brings into being a world of haunted and perilous fantasy which, while moving into greater and greater solidity, never loses touch with its painful, sweet, embattled human context. This is a notable achievement. Christopher Golden has written a beautiful and wildly inventive hymn to the most salvific human capacity: imagination."
—Peter Straub
"If Clive Barker had gone Through the Looking Glass, he might have come up with something as imaginative and compelling as Strangewood. Christopher Golden's writing is vivid, making his quirky fantasy world as real as the 'real world' in his story. It's been a long time since I've read such an original novel in the fantasy genre."
—Kevin J. Anderson
"A beautiful new formulation of genre material. A novel which roots the extremes of imagination in the displacements of the human heart. Lovely stuff."
—Graham Joyce
"A fascinating read."
—Cemetery Dance Magazine
"Strangewood the novel is a daring and thoroughly engrossing blend of wonder and adventure, terror and tenderness. Strangewood the place is what Oz might have been if L. Frank Baum had grown up on a steady diet of Stephen King."
—F. Paul Wilson
“A terrific novel. There's a hint of The Talisman here, as well as Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels, but ultimately it is the strength of Golden's characters that carries this novel and gives it its power. I never do this, but at one point I actually found myself looking ahead in the book to learn whether a particular character made it out of a scrape alive. I cannot give higher praise than that -- breaking my own reading habits because I was so involved with the story -- and I salute Golden for being able to make me do such a thing. Strangewood is an excellent book, an impressive achievement by a fine writer whose message could not be more timely.”
—Bentley Little
"Strangewood is a treat, and it shouts Christopher Golden's talent with a megaphone to its lips. With a sure voice and a steady hand, Golden weaves a story both deceptively simple and vibrantly realized, and he does it with pure artistry. I believe in his characters, his world and his talent."
—Greg Rucka
“Strangewood is the best thing Christopher Golden has written thus far. Of late, it's been gaining momentum as a genre classic. Underneath the adventures and scares and scenes of real-life awkwardness where the machinations of the fantastic have disrupted the mundane, Strangewood is about the awful responsibilities of fatherhood, real and imaginary, and how the sins of one father can affect the generation that follows. Golden skillfully brings [the novel] to a conclusion that is at once appropriate and deeply resonant, though perhaps not the happy ending one would expect from a fairy tale or children's book. Strangewood is the book that turned me from a Christopher Golden reader into a Christopher Golden fan.”
—The Green Man Review
As TJ Randall, he pens the tales of Strangewood, the most popular series of children's books since The Wizard of Oz. As Thomas Randall, he is a recently divorced father coping with joint custody, which permit him with only weekend visits with his young son. But when his son is hospitalized with an incurable catatonia, the reality and fantasy of Thomas's life start to merge... His son has been taken hostage into the world Randall created. Strangewood is at war.
“A new book by Christopher Golden means only one thing: the reader is in for a treat. His books are rich with texture and character, always inventive, and totally addictive.”
—Charles de Lint
"Christopher Golden gradually brings into being a world of haunted and perilous fantasy which, while moving into greater and greater solidity, never loses touch with its painful, sweet, embattled human context. This is a notable achievement. Christopher Golden has written a beautiful and wildly inventive hymn to the most salvific human capacity: imagination."
—Peter Straub
"If Clive Barker had gone Through the Looking Glass, he might have come up with something as imaginative and compelling as Strangewood. Christopher Golden's writing is vivid, making his quirky fantasy world as real as the 'real world' in his story. It's been a long time since I've read such an original novel in the fantasy genre."
—Kevin J. Anderson
"A beautiful new formulation of genre material. A novel which roots the extremes of imagination in the displacements of the human heart. Lovely stuff."
—Graham Joyce
"A fascinating read."
—Cemetery Dance Magazine
"Strangewood the novel is a daring and thoroughly engrossing blend of wonder and adventure, terror and tenderness. Strangewood the place is what Oz might have been if L. Frank Baum had grown up on a steady diet of Stephen King."
—F. Paul Wilson
“A terrific novel. There's a hint of The Talisman here, as well as Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels, but ultimately it is the strength of Golden's characters that carries this novel and gives it its power. I never do this, but at one point I actually found myself looking ahead in the book to learn whether a particular character made it out of a scrape alive. I cannot give higher praise than that -- breaking my own reading habits because I was so involved with the story -- and I salute Golden for being able to make me do such a thing. Strangewood is an excellent book, an impressive achievement by a fine writer whose message could not be more timely.”
—Bentley Little
"Strangewood is a treat, and it shouts Christopher Golden's talent with a megaphone to its lips. With a sure voice and a steady hand, Golden weaves a story both deceptively simple and vibrantly realized, and he does it with pure artistry. I believe in his characters, his world and his talent."
—Greg Rucka
“Strangewood is the best thing Christopher Golden has written thus far. Of late, it's been gaining momentum as a genre classic. Underneath the adventures and scares and scenes of real-life awkwardness where the machinations of the fantastic have disrupted the mundane, Strangewood is about the awful responsibilities of fatherhood, real and imaginary, and how the sins of one father can affect the generation that follows. Golden skillfully brings [the novel] to a conclusion that is at once appropriate and deeply resonant, though perhaps not the happy ending one would expect from a fairy tale or children's book. Strangewood is the book that turned me from a Christopher Golden reader into a Christopher Golden fan.”
—The Green Man Review
- Pages
- 324
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