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Carrion Comfort

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  • 1989 first published
  • 800 pages
  • ★ 3.6 (13 ratings)
  • 21 editions
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Published in 1989, Carrion Comfort is a vampire fiction and horror novel by Dan Simmons. It deals with vampires, psychic ability and texts.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.6 out of 5 from 13 ratings, and 87 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 21 editions across 5 languages.

At about 800 pages, most readers finish it in 14–15 hours.

About Carrion Comfort

See work: THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi's themselves… THE PRESENT... Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events. Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to 'use' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression. Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction. But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saul's quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankind's attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itself…
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  • American Horror tales
  • Vampires
  • Psychic ability
  • Horror tales, American
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Fiction in English American writers 1945-
  • Texts

Quick answers

Who wrote Carrion Comfort?

Carrion Comfort was written by Dan Simmons and first published in 1989.

What genre is Carrion Comfort?

It is usually shelved as Vampire Fiction and Horror.

How long is Carrion Comfort?

The median edition has 800 pages, about 14–15 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Carrion Comfort?

Readers who like it often enjoy Works (Buried Talents / Dance of the Dead / Dress of White Silk / From Shadowed Places / I Am Legend / Mad House / Person to Person / Prey / The Funeral / The Near Departed / Witch War), The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned.

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