Ararat: A Novel

Christopher Golden

Apr 2017 · Sold by St. Martin's Press

About this eBook

Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel

"An extremely gripping story, with echoes of John Carpenter’s The Thing...It’s a creepy, chilling book." —Scott Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Ruins and A Simple Plan

"Part psychological horror, part supernatural thriller, Ararat is a masterclass in supernatural suspense. Don't read it before bed!" —Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes

"Ararat is a rollicking and horrifying adventure...as relentless as it is addictive." —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock

New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden’s Ararat is a supernatural thriller about a mountain adventure that quickly turns into a horrific nightmare of biblical proportions.

Ararat is the heart-pounding tale of an adventure that goes wrong...on a biblical scale. When an earthquake reveals a secret cave hidden inside Mount Ararat in Turkey, a daring newly engaged couple are determined to be the first ones inside...and what they discover will change everything.

The cave is actually a buried ancient ship that many quickly come to believe is Noah’s Ark. When a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses. Inside the coffin they find something hideous. Shock and fear turn to horror when a massive blizzard blows in, trapping them thousands of meters up the side of a remote mountain. All they can do is pray for safety. But something wicked is listening to their prayers...and it wants to answer.

Ratings and reviews

Started it hoping for Stephen King meets Crichton, but was sorely disappointed. It is more like Dean Koontz wrote this, just boring cliche cookie cutter fiction meant to please a broad swath of low education readers. The characters are maddeningly 2dimensional, and make decisions against their thin personalities that work only for plot advancement, like in a z grade horror movie. The dialogue is awful and forgettable and any character could be changed with another and nobody would know better. There was very little research done, and no interesting proposals or ideas regarding the biblical sections and details. The "bad guy" says nothing interesting, intriguing, or revelatory, reveals zero motivation, and is also laughably boring. The last quarter of the book I had to skim. It gets 3 stars, at least I finished it with grim determination like I would a bad chore. Overall a very poor read full of cliche writing and I will not read another by this author, no way.

Be careful of your desires. This book starts out with an incredible race up a snow covered, treacherous mountain. A cave is found and what's in the cave changes a group of people's lives forever. Good versus evil. This book kept me reading into the night and reminded me of how quickly evil can present itself. This is one of those books that grabs you from the beginning and keeps on grabbing you until the end.

About the author

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling author of Snowblind, Dead Ringers, Tin Men, and Of Saints and Shadows, among many other novels. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. Golden is also the editor of such anthologies as Seize the Night, The New Dead, and Dark Cities, and the co-host of the popular podcast Three Guys with Beards. He lives in Massachusetts.