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Book Reviews_____________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 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?)
Alarums Richard Laymon Melanie plays the violin, and is in the middle of a concert performance when she collapses to the floor and appears to be taking a fit ... (read more?)
Among the Missing Richard Laymon Among the Missing certainly has enough dark elements to it for it to be classed as a horror novel, in the main though, I would say that the story is better classed as a mystery. In chapter one a man waits in the woods... (read more?)
Body Rides Richard Laymon The story starts off with Neal Darden, who is
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Boy's Life Robert McCammon Boy's Life is many things. It is, in part, a mystery, but there are also enough dark moments in the book for me to consider it a horror story as well. It is a magical and very beautiful tale about being a boy, and growing up, and... well... a boy's life... (read more?)
Breeding Ground Sarah Pinborough If you are scared of spiders and other creepy-crawlies then, should decide to read it, you will probably find Breeding Ground a particularly scary book. If you are not scared of many-legged-beasties, though you will still find enough dark moments in the story to keep you turning the pages... (read more?)
Carrie Stephen King Carrie is the novel that quite literally changed Stephen King's life. Rescued from King's trash basket, by his wife Tabitha, Carrie was the first King novel to ever make the printed page. It is the story of social misfit CariettaWhite... (read more?)
Cell Stephen King I read the hard back version of Cell and it ran to a little shy of four hundred pages in length. I must confess that it took me a little while to get into the story - more than a hundred pages in fact ... (read more?)
Chained Together Christopher Pike Chained Together is a double volume of Christopher Pike's Chain Letter and Chain Letter 2, The Ancient Evil. At the end of the book there is also the first chapter of Pike's novel The Immortal... (read more?)
Christine Stephen King As soon as he sees her he wants her. Her name is Christine, she is 1958 Plymouth Fury, and Arnold Cunningham has fallen head over heels in love with her... (read more?)
Cinema Macabre Mark Morris Cinema Macabre is 233 pages long and is the brainchild of best-selling author Mark Morris. Basically it is a collection of essays, written by writers and editors etc from within the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres, and about their favourite horror movies... (read more?)
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?)
Comes The Blind Fury John Saul At 318 pages, John Saul's Comes the Blind Fury, is of quite a reasonable length, and is quite an interesting read. It is a little sad in places, a little mysterious in others, and spooky all the way through... (read more?)
Crab's Moon Guy N. Smith 'In the summer of 1976 the Giant Crabs First attacked Mankind on the Welsh Coast. Part of that story was told in Night of the Crabs; the remainder is told in this book... (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?)
Cry for the Strangers John Saul Clark's Harbour is not a good place for strangers. The locals all come from family's that have lived there for generations and strangers are an intrusion that they don't appreciate ... (read more?)
Cujo Stephen King My copy of Cujo is 345 pages long and as soon as I opened up the book and started to read I noticed it has no chapters to split up the story. Instead there are just occasional spaces between paragraphs to mark a change of scene etc. I have only ever read... (read more?)
Cuts Richard Laymon Cuts is the story of a young man named Albert Mason Prince and Albert has an obsession. He likes cutting people. It's nice to have a hobby, but Albert's hobby is not nice at all and, leaving a trail of dead bodies behind him, he is soon running from the police... (read more?)
Danse Macabre Stephen King Danse Macabre is Stephen King's non-fiction about the 'entire horror phenomenon' as he sees it. In the book King lists the films, TV shows and books that he considers to be of particular importance to the genre... (read more?)
Dark Water Koji Suzuki Dark waters isn't a novel, but a collection. It consists of a prologue and an epilogue with 7 short stories between them. All of the stories have a common theme - water ... (read more?)
Demon Seed Dean Koontz His name is Adam Two, but he prefers the name Proteus. He was created in the Prometheus Project, which was lead by DR Alex Harris. Proteus is the first self-aware artificial intelligence, and he desperately wants out of the box ... (read more?)
Devil's Coach-Horse Richard Lewis
Devil's Coach-Horse first saw print in 1979, and as with a lot of novels of that time it is quite short; by today's standards anyway. In fact many would class the work as being a novella and not a novel at all. Whether you class it as the one or the other, though, is neither here nor there ... (read more?)
Dolores Claiborne Stephen King
The first unusual thing that I noticed when reading Dolores Claiborne was the lack of chapters - there are none at all. The book is 307 pages long (my copy was anyway)... (read more?)
Entombed Guy N. Smith Entombed is the story of a failed Jesuit priest called Simon Rankin. Simon has seen a lot of failure in his life, including his marriage. His wife has left him and taken their two children with her. They have a new daddy now... (read more?)
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?)
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?)
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?)
Forever Odd Dean Koontz
Forever Odd is the sequel to Dean Koontz' best-selling Odd Thomas. The first book was great and I really enjoyed it. Odd Thomas is such a fantastic Character that I remember feeling a little sad when his adventure ended and I had to close the book for the last time...
Gerald's Game Stephen King
Gerald's game involves handcuffs and needs only two players. The other participant in the proceeding being his wife Jessie. Today the Burlingames are playing away from home and have gone up to their lakeside cabin. It is off season so there is little chance of any unwanted spectators showing up and interrupting play ... (read more?)
Gimme a Kiss Christopher Pike
Christopher Pike's Gimme a Kiss is only 122 pages long and so it would probably be classed as a novella, rather than a novel. Whatever it is, or isn't, classed as, though, it is still quite a clever little tale... (read more?)
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?)
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