The Prisoner of Hell Gate: A Novel
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FOUR DECADES AFTER TYPHOID MARY WENT TO HER GRAVE, FIVE CURIOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO ESCAPE ALIVE FROM THE ABANDONED ISLAND THAT ONCE IMPRISONED HER. CONTAGION DOESN'T DIE. IT JUST WAITS.
In the Hell Gate section of New York's East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.
Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate ship captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1,500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan's most privileged quarters.
George's great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island—bantering, taking pictures, recalling history—they are missing something: Hidden evil watches over them—and plots against them.
When death visits Hell Gate, it comes to stay.
As darkness falls, the students find themselves marooned—their casual trespass having unleashed a chain of horrific events beyond anyone's imagination.
Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.
Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New York's foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister they'd rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night.
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Dana I. Wolff. (2016). The Prisoner of Hell Gate: A Novel. Picador.
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In the Hell Gate section of New York's East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.
Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate ship captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1,500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan's most privileged quarters.
George's great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island—bantering, taking pictures, recalling history—they are missing something: Hidden...- isOwnedByCollections
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In the Hell Gate section of New York's East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.
Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate ship captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1,500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan's most privileged quarters.
George's great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island—bantering, taking pictures, recalling history—they are missing something: Hidden evil watches over them—and plots against them.
When death visits Hell Gate, it comes to stay.
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Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.
Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New York's foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister they'd rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night.- sortTitle
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"A voice that surprises you with its originality. A story that compels you to keep turning pages. A powerful horror novel that chills you right to the bone."
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- source: Vincent Zandri, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Remains
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- content: "[The Prisoner of Hell Gate] presents a classic horror scenario....with a decidedly millennial twist...Wolff's way with characterization and situation recalls Stephen King's grounded, relatable style (with Mary Mallon rendered particularly vividly), and she employs genre tropes deftly."
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February 15, 2016
The legend and mystery surrounding Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, is given a supernatural twist in Wolff’s creepy but unsatisfying debut. During a pleasure cruise on the East River with friends, graduate student Karalee Soper can’t resist the lure of North Brother Island, where Mary Mallon was quarantined a century ago. In fact, Karalee’s great-grandfather, George A. Soper, was the one who finally captured Mary after she sickened many people with her cooking. The friends intend to explore the ruins and get off the island before dark, but they meet a woman dressed in rags named Mary, and she has other plans for them. Interspersed passages from Mary’s point of view humanize a woman who was made a pariah, making it clear that Karalee’s connection to her goes deep. As very bad things begin to happen to Karalee and her friends, a violent conclusion seems inevitable, but the abrupt ending means Karalee’s motivations aren’t explored thoroughly. This story of vengeance is atmospheric and spooky, with a pervasive sense of dread, but it could use some fleshing out. Agent: Sharon Pelletier, Dystel & Goderich Literary Agency.
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May 1, 2016
Typhoid Mary is alive and well off the coast of New York. Wolff presents a classic horror scenario--sybaritic youths running afoul of a murderous maniac in the woods--with a decidedly millennial twist: the true monster here is not the madwoman brandishing plague and a wickedly sharp barbecue fork but the very notion of social privilege. The madwoman in question is one "Typhoid" Mary Mallon, the infamous spreader of disease exiled to the rude shores of North Brother Island off the coast of Manhattan by the pioneering public health reformer George Soper. Strangely ageless at 113 years old and in typically robust health (the actual Mallon was only a carrier who never suffered the symptoms of her disease), Mary, alone on the island for decades, seethes with rage at her treatment by Soper and a society in which a poor Irish girl's hopes and desires counted for exactly nothing. Of course, Mallon's irresponsibility killed many innocents, but Wolff's sympathies are squarely with Mallon...as are those of her protagonist, Karalee Soper, great-granddaughter of George, who, in an amazing coincidence, winds up stranded on Mary's island with a cohort of her grad student pals, who are, in another amazing coincidence, studying public health. Wolff depicts the hapless scholars (who wash up on the island as a result of a drug-fueled boating excursion) as smug, grotesquely privileged boors deserving of Mary's gruesome attentions; Karalee is the exception, as she finds herself empathizing with Mary's plight (and that of the island's other ghosts, women and children burned to death as a result of unpunished negligence) and progressively estranged from her doomed colleagues. Wolff's way with characterization and situation recalls Stephen King's grounded, relatable style (with Mary Mallon rendered particularly vividly), and she employs genre tropes deftly, but the narrative's oddly imbalanced respect for the murderous Mallon and contempt for the grad students--who, for all of their inane self-involvement, are preparing for careers in public service--mute much of the horror, as the victims are irritating straw men and not missed when dispatched, and Karalee's own issues (mainly a lousy dad), which align her with Mallon, seem underdeveloped and render her disloyal actions and sour perspective confusing and off-putting. Wolff has an intriguing premise and something fresh to say with the horror genre, but ideological concerns trump the scares, and the author fails to craft a hero as compelling as her thwarted, vengeful villain.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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December 1, 2016
Five friends, academics in the field of public health, take a boat ride to celebrate the end of summer. Karalee and her friends visit North Brother Island, a tiny bit of land off the coast of the Bronx, in the dangerous tides known as the Hell Gate of the East River. The isolated island has a dismal history: it once housed a quarantine hospital for smallpox, typhoid, and other communicable disease sufferers, including the infamous "Typhoid Mary" Mallon. Karalee is particularly interested, since she is a descendant of the famous public health official George A. Soper-the man who tracked down Mallon, one of the first known symptom-free carriers of typhoid fever. Today the island is off-limits to the public-but someone is living there. Chapters alternate between Karalee and the mysterious woman on the island. This story starts off, like many horror tales, as an adventurous lark. The friends, who playfully call themselves the "sewer rats," anchor their boat and walk around, chatting about the island's history while swigging beers and smoking joints. When day fades to evening and the summer temperatures begin to cool down, the group prepare to leave but find the boat damaged and unseaworthy. Assuming a benign accident, the sewer rats don't panic-but know they are, for the time being, trapped on the island. As night falls, the island's true nature reveals itself. Artfully incorporating germophobia, Wolff offers a campy work of horror that is uniquely frightening. The creep factor and fascinating history help readers overlook some of the less than believable plot elements, awkward exposition, and stock characters. VERDICT For fans of horror and suspense.-Tara Kehoe, New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center, Trenton
Copyright 2016 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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May 1, 2016
It's a setup straight out of a direct-to-video slasher: a college professor and four grad students are boating (and drinking and toking up) down the East River and decide to do some extracurricular trespassing on deserted North Brother Island, the crumbled site of the smallpox hospital where Typhoid Mary died. But like other recent standouts (Chase Novak's Breed, 2012; Justin Evans' The White Devil, 2011; Christopher Buehlman's Those across the River, 2011), Wolff has the literary control to modulate a lurid premise into a work of startling perception. His biggest gambit is giving every other chapter to Mary herself, who's still alive (long story) and isn't pleased to see the disrespectful interlopersin particular Karalee Soper, the great-granddaughter of Mary's original captor, George Soper. What this relinquishes in shock value it replaces with a sort of sympathy for Mary, even as she sharpens her serving fork andgulpoffers to cook her visitors dinner. Wolff's imperturbable calmness adds punch to the inevitable grisliness. A strong, quick, and perfectly upsetting little shocker.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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Karalee Soper's great-grandfather tracked down and incarcerated the Irish immigrant cook known as Typhoid Mary. So when Karalee and her friends are cruising Manhattan's East River and find themselves near North Brother Island, where Mary was isolated for decades, they can't resist hopping ashore. Alas, the island is only supposed to be uninhabited. The pseudonymous Wolff is a former publishing executive and literary agent.
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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