Ragnarok

Nina and Erik, a young married couple, get lost in Juvdal while driving through the deep Telemark forests. In a howling gale they drive off the road – and come to it in a different time; a thousand years before the present, in a period of unrest between the Viking Age and the Christianisation of Norway. They are taken to the big farm Dalheim, and while Erik manages to escape, Nina stays prisoner at the farm. A strong volve with magical powers wants to sacrifice Nina in a dramatic and atmospheric ritual. Meanwhile, the Juvdal village where Erik is, is haunted by “glimpses from the past” – what some people would call ghosts.

This neo-gothic para-psychological thriller, written in the true tradition of Stephen King, has sold 10.000 copies so far. It will appear in a new edition in 2006.

“a genuine suspense novel, an unadulterated horror tale, a wholly Norwegian thriller... A modern horror story completely in line with the bestselling Anglo-American genre led by Stephen King” (Dagbladet)

First published: 1988, Cappelen Forlag

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