Mask of Silver

This book was so good. I love a good horror novel, especially when it's set a couple of years back - and a story about a guy who makes horror movies for a living and ends up haunted himself? I am in!
This was an amazing read. The story was interesting; it had all the necessary elements of a horror story, the characters felt real, they were exciting and from the very beginning, this book had the potential of being perfect. So, why do I end up giving it four stars? Simply put: I did not like the solution of the book. I had been hoping for a bit less "magic". I just don't think it fit well into the story. This whole book was working with so many ways of human created horror effects, I think it'd have been great - especially if the culprit had been one from the crew itself.
I loved the characters; they gave off such amazing timely well adjusted character treats - I think I read this book purely for insight of how horror movies were made some 40/50 years ago, which was amazingly described and well written.
Until this book, I only knew Arkham from the DC Universe, so I was a bit irritated at first, thinking it might somehow be connected to that. It isn't, though that would have been funny as well.
I enjoyed reading this book a great deal and I am going to take a look at the previously published editions of Arkham Horror, while hoping there will be another one.

I received a free ARC by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Yet another awesome Arkham Horror novel!! I’m so glad I found this universe/series because it’s been such a blast returning to this setting and my favorite Mythos monsties.

Silent movies aren’t something I’m super familiar with, but it was a blast reading about the culture around them and the ‘behind-the-scenes’ so to speak. The escapades of the director’s crew were a delight to read. Which is another thing: the author did a wonderful job with the characters’ personalities and made me, the reader, get close to them. Characters that would initially seem like unpleasant people turn around and before you know it you start growing fond of them too. Which makes you anxious for everything to turn out alright for them in the end when you know inevitably things start going eldritch.
Most of this book takes place in a wonderfully described old New England mansion that’s almost as much of a character as the humans in the book. You sympathize with the heroine as her suspicions and dread begin to escalate as things just start to feel more and more wrong.

It might be obvious which Mythos entity makes an appearance in this one based on the cover (which I also love, by the way), one of my favorites!! There are references to the original stories this creature was featured in without it being necessary reading - just something nice for the devoted fans who like picking out references (something akin to the Marvel movies).

Overall, another delightful Arkham Horror novel and I’m so grateful to Aconyte Books for publishing this new series! My thanks to them for my review copy.