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Review title: Little to recommend...
Product review: Father Panic's Opera Macabre, originally published separately by Subterranean Press, is also included in the Leisure edition of Tessier's Finishing Touches. This novella was nothing but disappointing, with such an evocative title leading to little more than grand guignol -- and bad grand guignol at that!Neil, a historical novelist, has his car break down and has to spend the night with a beautiful woman in a strange mansion. The cliches abound, and Tessier drags things out to the point that very little happens for the first 70 pages (out of 125); and when things do start happening, the complete lack of creativity ensures that the villains will be Nazis and the end will be predictable.Having this sorry waste of pages tacked onto a solid novel makes for a sadly uneven experience -- although at least you won't have to pay $40 to find out.
