Overview:
Let the Right One In Takes Top Honors at Tribeca Film Festival!
It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last---revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.
But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door---a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night. . . .
Sweeping top honors at film festivals all over the globe, director Tomas Alfredsson’s film of Let the Right One In has received the same kind of spectacular raves that have been lavished on the book. American readers of vampire fiction will be thrilled!
“It’s easy to compare Lindqvist to Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman.”
Dagens Næringsliv (Norway)
“Sweden's Stephen King...a classic tale of horror.”
Tucson Citizen
“A brilliant take on the vampire myth, and a roaring good story.”
Kelley Armstrong, bestselling author of Haunted
"Absolutely chilling. This page-turner grabs you from the onset and just won't let go. Vampires at their Anne Ricean best!"
L. A. Banks, author of Bite the Bullet and the Vampire Huntress series
‘A genuinely gripping read. If you read only one gore-filled, vampire love story complete with rich, dark humour and strong cinematic possibilities this year.’
Age
‘Brilliant and unexpected…not simply shock and gore, but an offbeat exploration of fear and the meaning of violence.’
Weekend Australian
‘Like all good vampire books, you want to gulp it down in one go.’
Bulletin
‘Reminiscent of Stephen King at his best.’
Independent on Sunday
‘A terrifying supernatural story yet also a moving account of friendship and salvation.’
Guardian
‘An unsettling and durable horror tale from the mind of a dangerously imaginative man.’
Herald Sun
‘A surprising and sometimes delightful reading experience… Lindqvist manages to maintain a light touch in an otherwise bleak landscape.’
Sunday Times
‘This was a bestseller in Sweden and could be equally big here. Don’t miss it.’
The Times
‘An energetic, noisy, highly imaginative novel that blends the most extreme kind of vampirish schlock-horror with a complicated love story, a profoundly gory sequence of murders and some rather good domestic realism about life in 1980s Stockholm.’
Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sydney Morning Herald
‘A compelling horror story, but it’s also a finely calibrated tale about the pain of growing up.’
Sunday Telegraph
‘Lindqvist has reinvented the vampire novel and made it all the more chilling…Immensely readable and highly disturbing.’
Daily Express
ENJOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their
Fellow Men!
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