There's a brief history of the Drood Family Matriarchs.Į. I think by the Ice Queen, Eddie means Hans Christian Anderson's 'The Snow Queen'.ĭ. "The London Times' and its famous crossword puzzles are mentioned.Ĭ. We're introduced to the Drood Hall War Room, which is guarded by Goblins. Boz, Gladstone, and Disraeli are mentioned.ī. The Droods have Rembrandts, Goyas, and Schalckens, among other priceless works of art.Ī. The weird creature met in this chapter will be alluded to again in Moonbreaker. Their photo is described as well as part of the interior of the enormous Drood Hall. Eddie's late parents were Charles and Emily Drood. Jeeves is the peerless butler created by humorist P. Other mentions: MTV, 'Dark Shadows,' and 'The Addams Family' (TV show versions for both). Eddie thinks Jacob Drood, the family ghost, is his great-great-great grandfather. Lenard Cohen's 'I'm your Man' is mentioned.Į. Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics are mentioned. Eddie drives a 1930s powder blue Hirondel convertible sports car.ī.
Rossum's Unionized Robots is a play on Rossum’s Universal Robots, from the 1920 play 'R.U.R'.
Delirium who is gossiped about here will be an important character in book 4, From Hell, With Love.ĭ. We meet some interesting persons there.Ĭ. Another introduction is to the Wulfshead Club, a place I can imagine a number of characters from other fantasy worlds enjoying. We're introduced to Eddie's favorite Internet Café and its manager, Willy Fleagal, whose T-shirt slogan is one I agree with.ī. Mentions: the Kabbalah, Necronomicon, the Book of Judas, and the Herod Canticles (haven't heard of that one)Ī. Dee & Sons & Sons.Ĭhapter 2: We're introduced to Archie Leech and his Kandarian amulet. Eddie is given a mission that leads to a chase scene any supernatural action movie would envy.Ī. We do get treated to some descriptions of the family pile, complete with an unexpected attack. I truly enjoyed the multitude of in-jokes to delight fans of horror, the supernatural, and fantasy/folklore that are sprinkled throughout the book like colored sugar on cookies (or chocolate chips, if you prefer).ĭrood Hall is a very interesting place, but I wouldn't want to live there. I loved book one, too.Īlthough I haven't watched many James Bond movies and never read any of the books, I had to enjoy hero Eddie Drood introducing himself by his use-name, Shaman Bond.Īs if the warning in the foreword weren't enough, the sights Eddie casually describes as he walks toward his next assignment should not be read by anyone with paranoid tendencies. I checked it out because I'd checked out book 11, Moonbreaker, from my library's new audio books section and loved it! Yes, I'm spoiled for a number of things in the series, but I don't care. The Man With the Golden Torc is the first book in Simon R.
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