Horror Reviews
Ticktock
by Dean Koontz
Review by Cleggy. By the time Dean Koontz wrote this novel he was already a household name. He had infiltrated the mystery / thriller / horror genres like no other. With a novel a year hitting the bookshelves he was as prolific a writer as Stephen King. However on closer inspection one can find that a lot of the books published during this time were re-writes of his earlier work. Whether it was his success as a writer that encouraged him to release some of his older works a second time, greed...
Demon Seed
by Dean Koontz
Review by Arron Clegg. A book so good he had to write it twice? Actually that’s a fair statement to make. Demon Seed was originally written in the 70’s and then thirty years later was completely re-written. The story and plot remains the same but what Koontz has done is move the novel into the 21st century with modern day references to the internet and actresses of the new generation. He has also very cleverly re-written the novel from entirely one perspective, that of Adam 2, rather than the...
The Veil
by Jerry Ibbotson
Something isn't quite right in the little Yorkshire village of Henchcombe, a thick mist sweeps down off the moor with an unnatural regularity and when it does strange things walk the streets. In the dead of night the villagers are confronted by their bitter regrets, lost loves and betrayal, re-living their deepest, darkest terrors.
One small group must rescue the village, a journey that will take them deep underground and to a place beyond imagination. A dark place, a place of pain ...
Afraid
by Jack Kilborn
Review by Arron Clegg. This is the first book I’ve read by this author. I kind of stumbled across it by accident and I’m so glad I did. Jack Kilborn is a pen name for the author J.A Konrath, and this was his first novel writing under that name. It is a simple tale, wrote simply and in no way completely original and yet this didn’t put me off.
The action in the book was fast paced enough to keep me hooked, there were a few ideas in the book that appealed, and while the story isn’t a ...
Velocity
by Dean Koontz
Book Review by Arron Clegg. When I picked this book up, read the front and back covers, I thought wow! It sounded like an amazing story to tell, one that would keep the heart pumping with every page turned, keep you hooked until despairingly you came upon the last page and wanted to go back for more.
This wasn’t the book I was imagining, sorry. It was a good book, but by no means a great book and you often wonder where the story could of gone with a different author.
...The Birthing House
by Christopher Ransom
A debut novel from an aspiring novelist. The book reached number 6 on the London Times fiction best seller list. A traditional tale of a haunted house. And already reading this. You feel like you are. Reading the novel. I’m sorry Christopher but I’m honestly not sure how you managed to create the rave reviews other websites have given you.
I don’t mean to be harsh, after all some of the writing is really good, really, really good, but together as a whole it didn’t work for me.
...The Woods are Dark
by Richard Laymon
Now it has been many a year since I have picked up a book by this author, and although he was considered a great horror write by many fans, I remember why. Now I don’t want to give the author a complete disservice, after all this book was one of his earliest and there are elements to the book that, to a horror fan, are very pleasing.
...The Rats
by James Herbert
This was James Herbert’s first novel and while it isn’t a masterpiece by anyone’s standard you could quite clearly see he was a writer with some promise. His style was easy on the eye and although fairly basic in places you could see that he knew how to use pace and atmosphere to his advantage.
With being quite a short novel, it isn’t surprising that the fast pace of the book means you can read the whole thing in a few short hours but don’t let that detract you from enjoying the exp...
Darkness Comes
by Dean Koontz
Review by Arron Clegg. (Darkness Comes is also known as Darkfall). In his early days Dean spent a lot of time trying different genres out and attempting different writing styles. Nowadays he is more famous for writing about events and stories which are very feasible in the modern world. Sometimes these have modern sci-fi qualities mixed with a good old dash of horror and sometimes they are just plain, oh my god that could really happen to me scary.
He has been likened and compared to ...
The Long Walk
by Stephen King
Review by Arron Clegg. Wow, what a novel. Not my first time for reading it, but I just seemed to enjoy it even more this time around. Now, most of you out there are already aware that Richard Bachman was a pen name for Stephen King. He chose to do this purely because in his early days, even as today he has that many stories bursting out of him that he just had to get them all out there, for us, his readers, to devour. It was a common theme for publishers to only publish one book a year from a...
Horror - also known as Horror fantasy - is a genre of literature that is intended to induce fear, terror or horror in it's readers.
Horror can be be fantastic, supernatural or simply fictional in nature and is considered to be a genre that has existed in some form for hundreds of years. As with any genre there is always some ambiguity as to what constitutes horror and there does seem to be a modern predilection for a greater degree of dark fantasy and speculative fiction rather than the classic definition of Horror, however there are still some authors producing some top rate novels within the genre.
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