The Ceremonies - T. E. D. Klein

Category: Horror, Novel, Paranormal
Language: English
Keywords: Cosmic Horror NLS

Written by T. E. D. Klein
Read by Dennis Bateman
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The Ceremonies
By T. E. D. Klein
Encode: mp3 - 64k, Mono, 44.1 KHz
Total # of Tracks: 38
Total Play time: 23:04:04

After getting this copy I noticed that this was also available on Audible.
That version is apparently “now fully corrected by its author”, whatever that means.
This reading is taken from the Viking Press edition 1984 and recorded in 1985.
Oh well, someone else can rip that one.
I’m excited that I can now listen to this book.
Enjoy

Hellblazer1138

From the book jacket:

Let it, therefore, rest at this: the events recorded here began as one day the would end-
In mystery.

From the terrifying vision fo its opening scene to the breathtaking horror of its climax, The Ceremonies turn our familiar world into a place of satanic intrigue and ominous design. In the grip of an extraordinary writer, it plumbs our darkest forebodings, the deadly underpinning of ancient myth and folklore, to reveal an undying evil in our midst.
For graduate student Jeremy Freirs, citified, cynical, yet prone to daydreams, summer is the time to shed a few pounds and finally get some reading done. He’s picked just the right place: the small, secluded village of Gilead, New Jersey, only ninety minutes from Manhattan but, with its antique customs and clannish traditions, seemingly a century away. For farmers Sarr and Deborah Poroth, young members of Gilead’s fundamentalist community, the summer threatens a conflict between their passionate natures and the stern dictates of their faith. For Sarr’s widowed mother, gifted with second sight, it promises the frightful awakening she’s dreaded all her life. And for aspiring dancer Carol Conklin, a red-haired virginal country girl struggling to survive in the city, the hot weather brings not only the first blush of romance but a lucky job with a kindly looking old man known as Mr. Rosebottom.
But “Rosie”, as he calles himself, bears a more sinister name - the Old One - and a far more terrifying face. Only he knows the dark design that rules these people’s lives: for in the heat of the summer an infinite corruption is stirring, an evil rooted not far from the Poroth farm, yet reaching sinuously and beyond. The signs are all about them, but the Old one alone knows that the rest dance unwittingly toward a horror and doom. The time is right for the Ceremonies, the monstrous rites that will unleash on a despised creation an age-old promise of apocalypse. And to ee the scheme unfold, like some deadly flower, is to watch a nightmare come to life.

T. E. D. Klein, a native New Yorker, has written some of the eighties’ most accomplished tales of fantasy and horror, including the much-acclaimed novella “Children of the Kingdom” which appeared in the Viking anthology Dark Forces. For the past four years he has been the editor of Twilght Zone magazine. This is his first novel.