Product Description

Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America...and he taught them how to kill it.

Sam and Dean have hit New York City to check out a local rocker's haunted house. But before they can figure out why a lovesick banshee in an '80s heavy-metal T-shirt is wailing in the bedroom, a far more macabre crime catches their attention. Not far from the house, two university students were beaten to death by a strange assailant. A murder that's bizarre even by New York City standards, it's the latest in a line of killings that the brothers soon suspect are based on the creepy stories of legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Their investigation leads them to the center of one of Poe's horror classics, face-to-face with their most terrifying foe yet. And if Sam and Dean don't rewrite the ending of this chilling tale, a grisly serial killer will end their lives forevermore.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72140 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-01
• Released on: 2007-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

If a Fan, Don't Read
I love the supernatural tv series, though at times it can be a bit dark with the violence scenes. This is the second book from the supernatural book series, and surprisingly it's even worst than the first one. At least in Witch Canyon the author didn't start making rather wild assumptions about the characters. I think anybody who watched the tv show knows Sam's too much of a trauma character to start saying good things about their father unless it's to make Dean feel better. The main female oc added in this book was too mary sue. The main guy oc Pym annoyed me especially. If you like the show do yourself a favor, don't read any of the books. I also really hated the Roxy case and Manferd. Also the author used outside information involved in the tvshow that the characters themselves don't know about. The author has Dean talk or think about the Reaper from when he was in the hospital, but after Dean wakes up he doesn't remember anything from when he was sleeping. The author should have watched the tv show.

UGH!
When I first purchased this, I was so excited to have a tie-in novel for Supernatural--but as others have said, it quickly wore off. I found myself literally skipping many pages out of plain boredom. Besides the fact that we spent way too much time on meaningless points, I didn't find the characters all that well contrived. I mean, Dean not being able to drive the Bronx? Are you kidding me? And Sam came off as a prig at times.

Also, like others have said, given the place and time at which this was supposed to have occurred, it lacked a seriousness and depth one would expect from the boys at this time. But, hey, we spent most of the time teasing and flirting instead.

Nope, Dean's not nearly as dumb as this and Sam's not quite so disdainful of his brother. I sure hope the next tie-in this writer writes is better or I will most certainly avoid spending my hard-earned money on a poorly written, one-dimensional, not the least bit creepy Ode to My Home Town.

Scoff at fan fiction if you like, people, but several fan fic writers write the boys truer and with better, more interesting plots than this guy AND they're FREE.

If you're looking for the complex characters of Sam and Dean Winchester, you won't find it here...nor will you find an exciting case file, either.

Sucks!
I am so glad I didn't buy this book, instead I borrowed it from my local library and what a piece of trash it is. I think the author, Keith whatever, seemed to only watch maybe two or three episodes of SPN before he wrote this book. As a huge fan of the show and a writer of SPN fan fiction this book is a huge disappointment and a crappy outlook on the show. It was so boring and I only urged myself to keep reading on because it was about Sam and Dean. The first bit of action doesn't happen until long after 150th page, except for a small and stupid bit in the beginning with an orangutan,??? oookay. The plots were meaningless and the book is basically a map of the Bronx. If I wanted to read about the Bronx Keith I would get a NYC brochure. I honestly can't believe that he's writing another SPN novel, Bone Key. If it's anything like this one, I'm not wasting my money on it. Now if you want to read a good and a real outlook on SPN, read Jeff Mariotte's book Witch's Canyon, it's awesome.