Imperial Bedrooms

"Taut and ultimately terrifying....In six novels, the author has emerged as one of the most gifted and serious novelists working in America today." --Hari Kunzru, "Financial Times" "Brutally conceived, and effectively done....There is no doubt that Ellis retains the ability to startle and disquiet." --Stephen Abell, "The Times Literary Supplement" "Ellis remains a bold ignorer of literary boundaries. "Imperial Bedrooms" is but another unexpected swerve in a wonderfully weird career." J. Robert Lennon, "London Review of Books" "Enough talk of [Ellis's] literary genius, let's call him what he really is: a terrific horror writer. "Imperial Bedrooms" is an absolute creepfest [and] a festival of panting paranoia." --Thomas Conner, "Chicago Sun-Times" "A profoundly talented--and occasionally even brilliant--writer...Ellis has a fictional territory all his own and, heaven forbid, a mastery there." --Jeff Simon, "Buffalo News" "A page-turning read [with] a sneaky subtlety...Holding a mirror to our desires, Ellis shows us how much scarier what we think we want can be when severed from even the possibility of innocence, [employing] noirish staples to lure his reader along while subtly circling back to the older--and more frightening--theme: the dead soul." --Michael McGregor, "The Oregonian" "This is the most Chandleresque of Bret's books, and the most deeply steeped in L.A. noir...As Dante's hell is circular, so is [Ellis's] L.A. Everywhere in "Imperial Bedrooms" there is a sense of time frozen, time collapsed and time rounding back on itself in various diabolical ways...What stays with [the reader] is not so much the concluding note of betrayal and horror as the mournfulness of the book, its eerie sense of stasis: clear skies, vacuum-sealed calm, the BlackBerry flashing on the nightstand in the middle of the night, everywhere the subliminal hum of menace." --Donna Tartt, Amazon.com "A page-turner..."Imperial Bedroom