The Book of Skulls

Name: The Book of Skulls
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert Silverberg
ISBN: 9781962791618

Author: Robert Silverberg

Narrator: Talon Beeson

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Three Ravens Publishing

Published: 11/25/2024

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Supernatural, Occult & Supernatural

Synopsis

From Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author, Robert Silverberg comes the classic: The Book of Skulls.
Four friends embark on a cross-country trip in search of a legendary monastery. There, they hope to find the secrets of immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, the Book of Skulls
There, they will present themselves–and pay the horrific price demanded. For immortality requires sacrifice. Two victims to balance two survivors. One by suicide, one by murder.
Beneath the gaze of grinning skulls, the terror begins. . . .

About Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction's most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth, and Lord Valentine's Castle. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on January 27, 2013

i have a soft spot for The Book of Skulls. it is a thoughtful tale of college students on a road trip slash quest slash metaphysical odyssey, their destination a secret to immortality. the only problem with obtaining this secret is that major bummer, The Grim Reaper. one of the group has to be sacri......more

Goodreads review by Apatt on June 30, 2015

Robert Silverberg is possibly the most underrated sf writers of all time, considering that he has been writing sf since the 50s, won numerous Hugo, Nebula and other major sf awards, and is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master. In spite of all this he never seems to be "in vo......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

This heavily character-driven novel begins and continues like an interesting jaunt through america in a classic road-trip novel, but it eventually becomes something much more on two fronts that might possibly be just one. Is it really about joining a secret society cult based on a the Book of Skulls......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle on November 09, 2020

Updated review after a re-read in November 2020. -- [URL not allowed] What a strange little book! I really had no idea what to expect when I got into this one, and I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised. I would be hard-pressed to tell you what kind of book it is: fan......more

Goodreads review by Chris on April 18, 2019

My first Silverberg book and I'm impressed. Not only did he successfully give each of the four characters, all four college age males, their own unique voices, each chapter is told through first person and I knew who was narrating each even without their names being the chapter headings, but he was......more