Veil (Christopher Golden)

Veil series is a series of fantasy and horror fiction novels by the award-winning novelist the American Christopher Golden. Golden published the first novel in the Veil series “The Myth Hunters” in 2006. The novel that made the lead Oliver Bascombe a household character went on to attain much critical acclaim and fan popularity. After the publication of the first novel in the series, Christopher Golden went on to publish two more titles in the series over the following two years that were even more popular than the first. Similar to the Landover series of novels by Terry Brooks the novels introduce an unfulfilled lawyer that lives in an alternate fantasy fiction world. The series of novels is set in the Veil, an alternate reality, the mythic realm of monsters and heroes, where even the most ordinarily looking of people have legends. Through the lead character, Golden takes his readers through his alternate reality of The Veil. In The Veil, lost civilizations such as the Incas, Aztecs, Atlanteans slip through reality and fantasy that has been lost through the ages intertwined between reality and myth. The magic of The Veil series of novels is that Golden returns to the simplest of formulas in telling his story. The author does not explain everything allowing the reader to draw his or her own conclusions about the characters and the story unhindered by boring entails of the world that he creates.