HELP!..me find this book...

[Lord Bloodraven]

Ok, a few years ago I read this book, and I can’t remember the title, author, or the names of any of the characters. I think this book was part of a series…anyway, it involved a castle, or perhaps a town or monastery, which had some sort of cursed gold that created a force field thing which trapped some of the characters inside. There was also a ghost in the beginning who died, and left an amethyst set in silver pendant/necklace to one of the characters. If any of this sounds familiar, please give me a title

[Lord Bloodraven]

Ok, a few years ago I read this book, and I can’t remember the title, author, or the names of any of the characters. I think this book was part of a series…anyway, it involved a castle, or perhaps a town or monastery, which had some sort of cursed gold that created a force field thing which trapped some of the characters inside. There was also a ghost in the beginning who died, and left an amethyst set in silver pendant/necklace to one of the characters. If any of this sounds familiar, please give me a title

[Asgard Thorin]

Bloodraven, I don't know the title of that book, but it does sound familiar....

I also had a book that I can't find for the life of me. The prologue was something about two kinds of life, light and dark, warring in space. It described how the war spanned galaxies and the cost to life to bridge the gap between galaxies. Then the dark life and the light life found a section of the universe where the light and the dark had co-spawned a grey life, and they agreed that it was an abomination and tried to extinguish it.

The story from that point is a bit different than the prologue. A detective (PI,cop, government agent, I don't remember which) he starts investigating disappearances. While he is conducting his investigation, he begins to be pursued by these canine looking creatures who while shaped like dogs appear to be crystal or diamond. I think they were made of silicon, and the cover of the book showed them upon it, in fact. The hero, while being chased, went into an underground bunker/fortress/fallout shelter created by this secret society. Eventually the silicon wolves track him down and when he wakes up he is on an alien world, his body is gone, and his brain, has been put into this robot to help mine and labor on this planet. All the minds of the brains harvested were put to sleep, but the main character had a hypnotic command placed in his mind to wake him up after being captured. He found out how the aliens who harvested their brains kept the minds suppressed, basically using the brains as bionic computers, and he was able to release the other captured minds by becoming the overmind or world mind. I think the story is fifty years old or more because while he is getting hypnotized, the hypnotist, a member of that secret order, has him look at a clock. Then he has him look at it again and the main character says, "Clock manipulation at a distance." Since he did not use the phrase remote control, which I think became common during the sixties or seventies and truly global in the eighties, I think this book is older than that. Does anyone recognise anything from this description? An author's name or a title would be hugely appreciated

[Asgard Thorin]

Bloodraven, I don't know the title of that book, but it does sound familiar....

I also had a book that I can't find for the life of me. The prologue was something about two kinds of life, light and dark, warring in space. It described how the war spanned galaxies and the cost to life to bridge the gap between galaxies. Then the dark life and the light life found a section of the universe where the light and the dark had co-spawned a grey life, and they agreed that it was an abomination and tried to extinguish it.

The story from that point is a bit different than the prologue. A detective (PI,cop, government agent, I don't remember which) he starts investigating disappearances. While he is conducting his investigation, he begins to be pursued by these canine looking creatures who while shaped like dogs appear to be crystal or diamond. I think they were made of silicon, and the cover of the book showed them upon it, in fact. The hero, while being chased, went into an underground bunker/fortress/fallout shelter created by this secret society. Eventually the silicon wolves track him down and when he wakes up he is on an alien world, his body is gone, and his brain, has been put into this robot to help mine and labor on this planet. All the minds of the brains harvested were put to sleep, but the main character had a hypnotic command placed in his mind to wake him up after being captured. He found out how the aliens who harvested their brains kept the minds suppressed, basically using the brains as bionic computers, and he was able to release the other captured minds by becoming the overmind or world mind. I think the story is fifty years old or more because while he is getting hypnotized, the hypnotist, a member of that secret order, has him look at a clock. Then he has him look at it again and the main character says, "Clock manipulation at a distance." Since he did not use the phrase remote control, which I think became common during the sixties or seventies and truly global in the eighties, I think this book is older than that. Does anyone recognise anything from this description? An author's name or a title would be hugely appreciated

[Dragon Fly]

Hi, from the 1st description, it sounds like one of the "Sword of Shannarah" series, but the second input threw me right off, hopefully this helps.

 

But I have to say both descriprions sound fascinating!

[Asgard Thorin]

Still don't know what that book is, Bloodraven.

I was finally, after twelve years able to find the book for which I was looking: Keith Laumer's A Plague of Demons.

 

Anyone else know for what book the 'Raven hunts?

[Guest Egwene]

:idea: Raven, try and putting some of the things you remember into amazons search engine.

[merlinspetrock]

Kind of sounds like the Cadderly stories by R.A. Salvatore for Forgotten Realms. I just dont remember anything about a pendant though, but its been a long time since Ive read those. The first book takes place in a Library/Monastary and I think there was some kind of spell or curse that kept the people from escaping.

 

Here is the Amazon.com description of the first book, called "Canticle"

 

"High in the Snowflake Mountains sits the Edificant Library, a place of scholarly study for priests, bards, and others. Now from the hidden vaults beneath the library a devastating curse is unleashed, and a young cleric must battle the terrifying creatures set loose by a malevolent, consuming essence."