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Book Reviews(Listed by Author's Name) ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________
Andrews - V.C. Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews When she locks them in a room at their grandmother's house, Corinne Dollanganger tells her children that it will only be for a day. Then it is two days. Then three, and as the days become weeks and the weeks become years they fear that they will never escape the confines of that one small room and the large attic above it... (read more?)
Although I have seen Petals on the Wind categorized as being a 'gothic horror' I don't really consider the book to be a horror novel at all. In fact I only include it on this site because it is a continuation of the story started in Virginia Andrew's first novel... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Barker - Clive Everville Clive Barker It would be possible for a reader to read Everville without first having read its predecessor, but I really do think that it makes a better read when you realize what has gone before ... (read more?)
The Great and Secret Show Clive Barker The Great and Secret Show is split into 7 parts. The first two parts run to 115 pages and set the background for the struggle that is still raging for the reminder of the book. It all starts with a man named Randolph Jaffe... (read more?)
The Hellbound Heart Clive Barker When Frank Cotton buys Lemarchand's box from Kircher and shuts himself into his blacked out bedroom he has one thing on his mind: contacting The Order of the Gash... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Bloch - Robert Psycho Robert Bloch Psycho is not a long book. My copy contained just 153 pages and I must admit that, like a lot of people, I have already seen the film. Hitchcock's Psycho is a great film, but it does not allow you to get into the heads of the characters in the sane way that the book does and so I am very glad that I finally got around to reading Bloch's classic... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Burgess - Anthony A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange is set in a rather grim and violent future. The story is written in the first person and split into three parts. Part one opens to find the central character, fifteen-year-old Alex, sitting in the Korova Milkbar, along with his three droogs Pete, Georgie and Dim... (read more?) ______________________________________________ The Nameless Ramsey Campbell Nine years after her four-year-old daughter, Angela, was murdered Barbara Waugh has got her life back on track and learned how to live with the pain. Barbara is a successful literary agent and things are going well. Then she receives a phone call and a voice at the other end of the line says... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Clark - Simon Vampyrrhic Simon Clark Vampyrrhic is 441 pages long and is set in the North Yorkshire town of Leppington, which is not far from Whitby. There are four central characters in the story, but the main one is probably Dr David Leppington... (read more?)
Vampyrrhic Rites Simon Clark Vampyrrhic Rites is the sequel to Vampyrrhic and takes up the story three years later. In the original book there were four people who joined together to fight and destroy the vampires: David Leppington, Electra Charnwood, Bernice Mochardi and Jack Black... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Tales of the Unexpected Roald Dahl Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of sixteen superb short stories, all of them very different, but sharing one thing in common - the unexpected ending ... (read more?)
More Tales of the Unexpected Roald Dahl At only 127 pages More Tales of the Unexpected doesn't offer as larger a slice of Dahl's fiction as it predecessor does. The nine short stories that make up the pages are ... (read more) ______________________________________________ Shrike Joe Donnelly
Like most of Joe Donnelly's books, Shrike is set in Scotland. The main character is a policeman called jack Fallon. After a seance goes wrong something evil is unleashed into the town... (read more?)
Stone Joe Donnelly Some time ago I read one of Joe Donnelly's novels. It was called Still Life, it was set in Scotland, and I enjoyed it very much. This made me want to read more of his work, so I bought Stone. Stone is also set in Scotland and is about a family that move into an old house - Cromwath House ... (read more?)
The Shee Joe Donnelly I've read a few of Joe Donnelly's books and most of them are set in Scotland. The Shee is a little different. Although the central character is Scotsman the story is set in Ireland and is based on the Morrigan of Celtic myth... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Finney - Jack Invasion of the Body Snatchers Jack Finney When Becky Driscoll comes knocking at Dr Miles Bennell's door it is a pleasant surprise. He hasn't seen Becky for years. But when his visitor bursts into tears he can only sit and listen. Becky is worried about her cousin Wilma who has started to believe that her father is not her father at all... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Fowler - Christopher Psychoville Christopher Fowler Psychoville is a little over 400 pages long and split into two parts. Part one of the book is set in 1985 and part two continues the story ten years later. I will say right up front that I liked the book a lot... (read more?)
Roofworld Christopher Fowler I had never read any of Christopher Fowler's work until I read Roofworld. I had heard good things about the book, though, and I didn't have to get many pages into it before I discovered that I had heard right. It is very good... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Gagliani - William D. Wolf's Trap W. D. Gagliani Nick Lupo is a good cop with an unusual secret. Nick is a werewolf and even after many years he is still trying to come to terms with that fact and learn how to control the animal within him. Nick may be a werewolf, but he is... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Golding - William Lord of the Flies William Golding William Golding's Lord of the flies was first published in 1954 and, in its simplest, is the story of a group of young boys that are stranded on an island. This is not a simple story though and there is much more to it when you explore a little deeper. Lord of the Flies probes into the darker side of human nature and ... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Gorman - Ed Cold Blue Midnight Ed Gorman When you are the ex-wife of a serial killer the media never totally forgets about you, and Jill believes that the person watching her is probably just another news hound that wants to drag up the past and try to get a story out of it. Unfortunately for Jill, she is going to have a little more on her plate than an annoying reporter or two... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Harris - Thomas Hannibal Thomas Harris The first chapter of Hannibal reacquaints the reader with FBI agent Clarice Starling. She is working on a joint operation - a drugs raid - involving the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the Drug Enforcement Administration SWAT teams... (read more?)
Red Dragon Thomas Harris Red Dragon is the novel that introduces the character Hannibal Lecter. I had been wanting to read it for quite some time, and when I finally got around to doing so I was surprised to discover that that the famous Dr Lecter is not a constant part of the storyline but... (read more?)
The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris The Character of Hannibal Lecter plays a bigger part in The Silence of the Lambs than he did in Red Dragon. But for me, it is trainee FBI agent Clarice Starling that steals the show. When reading The Silence of the Lambs the reader also gets to know... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Creed James Herbert The Central Character in Creed is a freelance photographer called Joseph Creed. Creed is good at his job and has a knack of snapping the unsnappable, a skill which is helped in part, no doubt, by the fact that he is almost totally without morals ... (read more?)
Domain James Herbert Domain is the third book in James Herbert's Rats series. Once again the rats have returned and they are as vicious and deadly as ever, but this time around the characters have other things to worry about apart from the rampaging rodents... (read more?)
Lair James Herbert You don't necessarily have to have read The Rats before you can read Lair, but having read both books, I would recommend it, unless you are only intending on reading the one book ... (read more?)
Others James Herbert Others is an unusual book with an unusual central character. It is the story of a man called Nick Dismas. Nick runs a rather successful private investigations business in Brighton... (read more?)
The Rats James Herbert Their first victim was one of London's many homeless. They ate their fill and then went looking for more. When they came for one-year-old Karen Blakely the family pet, a mongrel dog named Shane, laid down his life to save her ... (read more?)
Crickley Hall is an old house with an unpleasant history, and so the house is often without tenants. Although it is never truly empty. When bad things happen in a place they can leave their mark on it. Some very bad things have happened in Crickley Hall and when the Caleigh family move in it isn't long before they discover that things are not quite right with the house... (read more?)
______________________________________________ Hill - Susan The Woman in Black Susan Hill If you enjoy ghost stories, then you would probably enjoy reading The Woman in Black, especially if you like stories that involve spooky, old houses... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Hutson - Shaun Erebus Shaun Hutson
Erebus is 309 pages long and is set in a small British town called Wakely. The economy of the whole town seems to rely on the local farming industry and in many ways Wakely could be said to be self sufficient... (read more?) ______________________________________________
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