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Hundo House
Molly Braxton kissed her daddy goodnight, brushed her teeth, and went to sleep- and the next morning she was gone.
Her parents are frantic. The authorities have no leads- the cute, likeable girl everyone adored has disappeared without a trace. The only possible lead is her uncle Alecks, the man her mother and father fled the big city to get away from. What secrets did Molly and her uncle keep? Why are there pictures of the same house, both drawn by the missing girl, hanging in the kitchens of her parent's house- and her uncle's?
The girl and her uncle called the place Hundo House- a dream palace with a hundred doors, doors that could open on anything and anywhere. But Hundo House was nothing but a dream, a game a strange man with no real friends of his own played with his young niece- or was it?
Her parents are frantic. The authorities have no leads- the cute, likeable girl everyone adored has disappeared without a trace. The only possible lead is her uncle Alecks, the man her mother and father fled the big city to get away from. What secrets did Molly and her uncle keep? Why are there pictures of the same house, both drawn by the missing girl, hanging in the kitchens of her parent's house- and her uncle's?
The girl and her uncle called the place Hundo House- a dream palace with a hundred doors, doors that could open on anything and anywhere. But Hundo House was nothing but a dream, a game a strange man with no real friends of his own played with his young niece- or was it?
218 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 5, 2020
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March 12, 2020
Justine went to bed after coming home from a hard day of work expecting that all was right with her world, how could she know that when she awoke in the morning it would all be so very different? Her bright seven year old girly girl, Molly, was gone and nobody knew where to look for her-not even the brilliant Robin Drake whose mind quickly deduces that all is not as it first seems. Could her long estranged Uncle Alecks have something to do with Molly's disappearance? The answers lie within the walls of Hundo House, a world of dreams without end- and nightmares too horrible to anticipate.
I have yet to be disappointed with anything Kanuckel writes, and Hundo House was certainly no exception. A novel of dark fantasy and horror in the style of such great novels as Christopher Golden's Strangewood and John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things, its also a gateway story to the rest of his literary world, a fictional place with three ages and a great many stories to tell for each of them. Here we find ourselves in the second age, where the lines of our own reality, fantasy, and crime novels blur, building a smooth narrative, engaging characters, and an entire history of its own that rests quite nicely between that of the first age ( a time of magic and heroes of old) and that of the third age (where time has gone on and it's heroes exist in a desolate world that nevertheless thrives on hope and resilience). I won't say much more here as its best to go into this one as unspoiled as you can, and with your inner child along for the ride nightmarish as it often is. Let's just say you're in for a treat, and if I'm right, it's likely to carry you on into the rest of this world to find out where it all began.
I have yet to be disappointed with anything Kanuckel writes, and Hundo House was certainly no exception. A novel of dark fantasy and horror in the style of such great novels as Christopher Golden's Strangewood and John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things, its also a gateway story to the rest of his literary world, a fictional place with three ages and a great many stories to tell for each of them. Here we find ourselves in the second age, where the lines of our own reality, fantasy, and crime novels blur, building a smooth narrative, engaging characters, and an entire history of its own that rests quite nicely between that of the first age ( a time of magic and heroes of old) and that of the third age (where time has gone on and it's heroes exist in a desolate world that nevertheless thrives on hope and resilience). I won't say much more here as its best to go into this one as unspoiled as you can, and with your inner child along for the ride nightmarish as it often is. Let's just say you're in for a treat, and if I'm right, it's likely to carry you on into the rest of this world to find out where it all began.
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