Eve--The Bride Of The Rat God.

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I’ve owned this book for several years, & throughly enjoy it.
I noticed one of your posts on the movies, & thought of you.

LINK to :“Bride Of The Rat God”

Barabra Hambly has done a number of horror/dark fantasy books, but this one is set in Hollywood during 1923, & is good enough to have rekindled my intrest in early Hollywood films.

It is well-written, & the title explicitly chosen to recall the early Republic serials.

I sincerly hope that Hambly uses some of these characters again.

This is fun!!

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Oops, I opened this thread to congratulate Eve on her impending nuptials.

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Yeah, geez, I thought I was gonna have to move this to the Pit.

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If you must know, the Rat God and I are just good friends.

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Have you already read it? :slight_smile:

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No—I read the link you gave, and it does sound interesting . . . My problem with historical fiction is that I know way too much about the silent-screen era, and any little mistakes the author makes are going to take me out of the book to go, “No, you idiot, everyone knows Nita Naldi made her first film in 1920, not 1923!”

I’m reading Bandbox (v. enjoyable), which Cranky sent me, and it takes place in NYC in 1928—but the author completely won me over by saying in the foreward, “I fudged some dates and events, deal with it.”