Bram Stoker Award winner Christopher Conlon is the author of Savaging the Dark and A Matrix of Angels, among other novels, and the editor of He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson.
Now Christopher Conlon, “one of the preeminent names in contemporary literary horror” (Booklist), reinvents this theatrical classic for a new generation, creating a fresh and different take on Capek’s unforgettable vision of the end of human civilization. took audiences by storm when it premiered in Prague in 1921-within three years it had been translated into thirty languages and seen in productions all over the world.
Gripping, nuanced, and deep, Conlon's novel delivers." - John Shirley, author of Bleak History and In ExtremisĪPOCALYPSE REVISITED Karel Capek's nightmarish drama R.U.R. It is one hell of a story told by one hell of a writer, a novel that feels more evocatively true than many memoirs." - Mort Castle, author of Moon on the Water and The Strangers "This powerful novel is both innovative and a fine example of world-class storytelling: it's about life and the restless shadows it casts it's about death and ghosts who aren't ghosts. It gives us the hauntings of not-quite-ghosts, lingering regrets and remembrances, and the documentation of the results of not so wise but always human choices. Yet, though she gazes obsessively at him and hangs on his every word, she won't even tell him her name.just that she's "The Rain Girl." Who is she? Where does she come from? What does she want? "We could call this book a 'contemporary metaphysical mystery' or a 'modern fantasy, ' but it's far more.Lullaby for the Rain Girl resonates like the Expat Paris of Hemingway in A Moveable Feast and the 1960s College Crazy of Richard Farina's Been Down So Long Looks Like Up To Me: detailed recall of 'what was' interwoven with 'what should have been.' There's a rough 20th century romanticism, too, something like Richard Matheson's sensibility filtered through Henry Miller's libidinous viewpoint. She seems fascinated by everything he says and does-disturbingly so. But suddenly one gray afternoon, a mousy, nondescript new girl appears in his classroom. He can hardly get out of bed in the morning to make his way to the high school where he teaches English. Overstressed, out of shape, in the middle of a bitter divorce, and carrying a secret that weighs heavily on his psyche, he's convinced he's a failure.
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