Revelation

The Revelation begins with a strange prologue about the a tribe of Native Americans that are visited upon by a strange man that brings visions of the tragedy that will visit them. This ominous beginning really doesn't seem to fit but it does later after the book starts to pick up. Fast forward to modern times and the small town of Randall, Arizona. Everything seems to be fine with the town but boiling underneath is tension mounting. The first strike is the churches which start appearing with obscene messages scrawled in goat's blood and the local Episcopal priest is gone and so is his family. Then the goat farmers die horrific deaths, too. There is also an epidemic of stillborns, including an eighty-year-old woman giving birth. Caught up in all this is a young writer whose wife is now pregnant and the center of eeverything, the town's sheriff who is a descendant of many who have fought the evil before, and the new priest in town who has many secrets of his own. Guiding them is Brother Elias who has fought the evil before. With murder sequences that will make you squirm and an enemy that will make you look at infants in a whole new light, The Revelation is pure horror in the vein of Stephen King or Robert McCammon and is worth the read.

This is the second of Little's books that I have read this and "The House" I thought this was ten times better. I just got done reading it I could not put it down. It was scary and brilliant. Awsome book!!!!!!!!!

Little's first book is more linear and less experimental than his later works. It's more of a straight-ahead Lovecraft pastiche than the cutting-edge social commentary of his more recent work, but the scares are here, as are the King-like syampathetic characters. And there's no skimping on the gore. One of the few first novels to win the Bram Stoker award that actually deserved it.

God has banished Satan from his presence forever. In his anger at this humiliation, Satan has vowed to destroy God's handiwork: mankind. Over the eons, many battles have been fought, but the forces of God have won every time. Randal, Arizona is a quiet town that soon will be the locale of the latest skirmish in the eternal war between good and evil.The preliminary thrusts begin when an Episcopalian minister and his family vanish while a child dreams of what happened to them. The lad leads the sheriff to the spot where their bodies are found. When the child has another dream, he immediately calls the sheriff. However, before he can relate his latest vision, his house explodes, killing all the occupants. An evangelical preacher arrives in town to explain what must be done to stop evil from winning for the first time. Using his experience gained over too many fights during the millennium, he rallies his chosen to risk their lives in defeating Satan's soldiers.THE REVELATION pulsates with a palatable force that leaves readers feeling they journeyed into a world of terror rarely felt in a novel. Reminiscent of THE STAND, fans of King, Koontz and Straub will fully appreciate this work. Though not yet recognized by the genre as attaining the summit of the K2 (King and Koontz), Bentley Little not only holds his own, but perhaps tops the elite.