Requiem

Reviews / Votes

"a powerful, philosophical look at death" -- Steve Stred, Award-Winning Author of Mastodon, Father of Lies & Churn the Soil "John Palisano's novel is a chilly delight. [...] I found myself feeling that sense of isolation when the first moments of peril began - Palisano has a trippy imagination and it's employed within the novel's first fifty pages. Requiem does feel like familiar territory, but the moving around Eden, even when it feels like it could be your last, is gloriously smooth and cold in one. It's said that in space, no one can hear you scream - but what you hear within your own head may be more detrimental." -- Phantasmagoria Magazine "A good representation of the space horror idea and is accessible and readable." -- Concatenation "Palisano invites us into the vista of infinite space, teetering on oblivion. While technology welcomes us, something within us always grinds for awakening, and by delving into death, we will find it. A technological allegory for our time." -- L. E. Daniels, Bram Stoker Award (R) Nominee and author of Serpent's Wake: A Tale for the Bitten "Smart, trippy, fast-paced and packed with dread, John Palisano's Requiem is a superb horror/sci-fi hybrid that will rattle your synapses and jangle your nerves." -- Lisa Morton, six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award "Imagine a huge cemetery floating in space and you have Requiem, an intensely creepy horror story that also asks the big questions: Are we wrong about the nature of reality? What does it mean to be human? Warning: Be prepared to feel like someone is walking on your grave." -- Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor and The Hunger "Possessing a firm grasp of tradition but with his vision clearly focused on the future, John Palisano is exactly the type of writer horror needs right now: bold, brave, imaginative and unflinching." -- Bentley Little, Bram Stoker Award (R) Winner "Palisano takes the 'haunted house in space' trope and twists it into something completely fresh and totally unhinged. Requiem takes the most terrifyingly hallucinogenic moments of Event Horizon and combines them deftly, and powerfully, with the most human and heartfelt themes of Contact to create a new vision of extraterrestrial visitation, formulating a new take on one of the all-time great taglines: In space, no one can hear you scream... but you." -- Philip Fracassi, author of THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL and BOYS IN THE VALLEY "A meditative portrait of humanity's place in the universe, John Palisano's latest is a haunting and addictive addition to an already impressive body of work. For all its dealings with the speculative, Requiem is ultimately concerned with connections and relationships, turning our heads toward the skies-and that which is still beyond our understanding-in order to better understand ourselves." -- Christa Carmen, Bram Stoker Award-winning and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island "Palisano's evocative prose makes the setting both eerie and enthralling." -- Publishers Weekly "Continually claustrophobic and deftly allows many twists to sneak up on you" -- Ginger Nuts of Horror