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The Horror Reviews

I grew up on horror novels. I remember picking up James Herberts and Guy N Smiths when I was less than ten years old, and I've been an avid reader and collector ever since. At some point, when still a kid, I started an encyclopaedia of the modern horror novel, which would contain reviews and bibliographic information on all the horror novels I could find. It was never going to be finished, I knew that, but it was something I felt I needed to do. Looking at it in 2005, after about ten years of inactivity, I still see over 100,000 words and realise that, as bad as much of it is, it must have had a great effect on my future writing. It could even be called the real beginning to The Million Word March.

Here's what there is so far, in review format, as it does contain information that I haven't seen elsewhere on the net. Bear in mind, though, that I was very young when I wrote a good portion of it. I have a much more critical eye today, as well as a lot more experience with both good and bad literature, and it would be written very differently if I were to start now. Maybe one day I'll take up this project again and make it a little more consistent.

The Reviews

Note: there are two versions of this page: listed by author (this one) and listed by title.


Paul Adams
Devour

Robert Alexander
Demonstrand
The Soul Eater

Michael Falconer Anderson
Black Trinity
The Clan of Golgotha Scalp
God of a Thousand Faces
The Unholy
The Woodsmen

Etienne Aubin
Dracula and the Virgins of the Undead
The Terror of the Seven Crypts

Mike Baker
Adam

John Blackburn
A Beastly Business
A Book of the Dead
Children of the Night
A Ring of Roses
A Scent of New-Mown Hay

James Blackstone
Torched!

Nick Blake
Chainsaw Terror

Robert Bloch
American Gothic

Norman Bogner
Snowman

Gary Brandner
The Brain Eaters
Carrion
Echoes
Hellborn
The Howling
Quintana Roo
Return of the Howling
Walkers

Margaret Carr
The Witch of Wykham

David Case
And Now the Screaming Starts...

Emma Cave
The Blood Bond

Evan Chandler
Dying Light

Glenn Chandler
The Sanctuary
The Tribe

Robert Charles
The Burning
Flowers of Evil

Suzy McKee Charnas
The Vampire Tapestry

Paddy Chayefsky
Altered States

Simon Ian Childer
Tendrils
Worm

G C Clewett
Blood Dynasty

Nancy A Collins
In the Blood
Sunglasses After Dark
Tempter
Wild Blood

Ralph Comer
The Witchfinders

Brian Cooper
Stones of Evil

Louise Cooper
Crown of Horn

Basil Copper
The Curse of the Fleers
The Great White Space
Necropolis

Jere Cunningham
The Abyss

Ann Curd
Night of the Devil

James Darke
The Escape
The Feud
The Killing
The Meeting
The Plague
The Prisoner
The Torture
The Trial

Ian Dear
Village of Blood

Ivor Drummond
The Necklace of Skulls

Eric Ericson
The Sorcerer

James Farber
Blood Island
Nightmare's Child

Daniel Farson
Transplant

Alan Dean Foster
Alien

Guy Fraser
Monster

Bill Garnett
The Crone
Down-Bound Train
The Shadow
The Unbegotten

Ray Garton
Live Girls

Leo Giroux, Jr
Dark Ashram

Ron Goulart
Bloodstalk
Deadwalk
On Alien Wings

Clay Grant
The Demon Samurai

John Halkin
The Unholy

Angus Hall
To Play the Devil

Barbara Hambly
Immortal Blood

Laurell K Hamilton
Guilty Pleasures
The Laughing Corpse

Richard Harrington
Hellfire Today

Steve Harris
The Hoodoo Man
Wulf

James Herbert
The Dark
Domain
Fluke
The Fog
The Jonah
Lair
The Magic Cottage
Moon
The Rats
The Spear
The Survivor

Joseph Howard
Damien - Omen II

Shaun Hutson
Breeding Ground
The Skull
Slugs
Spawn
The Terminator

John Hyde
Amen

David James
Croc

Laurence James
Paradise Lost
The Road

Edward Jarvis
Maggots
Pestilence

Martin Jenson
The Echo on the Stairs
An Odour of Decay
The Village of Fear

K W Jeter
Mantis

Mendal W Johnson
Let's Go Play at the Adams'

Shelley & Paul N Katz
Alligator

Richard Kelly
Midnight's Lair
Tread Softly

Stephen King
It

M E Knerr
Sasquatch

Harry Adam Knight
Carnosaur
The Fungus
Slimer

Robert Knight
Plasmid

Jeffrey Konvitz
The Apocalypse
The Sentinel

Gordon McGill
The Abomination - Omen V

Richard Laymon
Alarums
Allhallow's Eve
The Beast House
Beware!
Blood Games
The Cellar
Darkness, Tell Us
Flesh
Funland
Night Show
One Rainy Night
Out are the Lights
Resurrection Dreams
Savage
The Stake
The Woods are Dark

Michael R Linaker
Scorpion
Scorpion: Second Generation
The Touch of Hell

David Lippincott
Black Prism

Robert Lory
Dracula Returns
Dracula's Brothers
Dracula's Gold
The Drums of Dracula
The Hand of Dracula
The Witching of Dracula

Thomas Luke
The Hell Candidate
Phobia

Brian Lumley
Blood Brothers
Bloodwars
The Burrowers Beneath
Deadspawn
Deadspeak
Demogorgon
The House of Doors
The Last Aerie
Necroscope
Psychamok
Psychomech
Psychosphere
The Source
Wamphyri!

Richard Lupoff
Lovecraft's Book

Michael Mannion
Death Cloud

Marc Marais
Duel for a Dark Angel

George R R Martin
Fevre Dream

Graham Masterton
Black Angel
Burial
Charnel House
Death Dream
Death Trance
The Devils of D-Day
The Djinn
Family Portrait
Fireflash 5
Flesh and Blood
The House That Jack Built
The Hymn
The Manitou
Mirror
Night Plague
Night Warriors
The Pariah
Plague
Prey
Revenge of the Manitou
Ritual
The Sleepless
The Sphinx
Spirit
Tengu
The Walkers
The Wells of Hell

Richard Matheson
I am Legend

Robert R McCammon
Baal

Gordon McGill
Armageddon 2000 - Omen IV
The Final Conflict - Omen III

David J Michael
Death Tour

James Moffatt
The Naked Light

Pierce Nace
Eat Them Alive

Andrew Neiderman
Brainchild

Gavin Newman
The Hangman

Tom Owen
Circus of Horrors

Frank S Pepper
Big Deep

Daniel Rhodes
Next, After Lucifer

Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat

Jon Ruddy
The Bargain

Peter Saxon
Black Honey
Corruption
The Curse of Rathlaw
The Darkest Night
Dark Ways to Death
The Disorientated Man
The Haunting of Alan Mais
The Killing Bone
Satan's Child
Through the Dark Curtain
The Torturer
The Vampires of Finistere

David Seltzer
The Omen

Nick Sharman
The Cats
Childmare
Judgement Day
The Scourge
The Surrogate

Guy N Smith
Abomination
Accursed
Alligators
Bats Out of Hell
The Black Fedora
Blood Circuit
The Blood Merchants
Cannibal Cult
Caracal
Crabs on the Rampage
The Dark One
Dead End
Deathbell
Doomflight
The Druid Connection
Entombed
The Ghoul
The Graveyard Vultures
The Island
Killer Crabs
The Knighton Vampires
Locusts
The Lurkers
Manitou Doll
The Master
Night of the Crabs
The Origin of the Crabs
The Pluto Pact
The Resurrected
Return of the Werewolf
Satan's Snowdrop
The Slime Beast
The Son of the Werewolf
The Sucking Pit
Thirst
Throwback
The Undead
The Unseen
Warhead
Werewolf By Moonlight
Witch Spell
Wolfcurse

Martin Cruz Smith
Nightwing

S P Somtow
Vampire Junction

Peter Stafford
The Wild White Witch

Thomas Sullivan
Born Burning

Richard Tate
Birds of a Bloodied Feather

William Tedford
Liquid Diet

Jack Hamilton Teed
The Blood of Dracula

Peter Tremayne
Nicor!

Steve Vance
The Abyss

Ruth Hurst Vose
Torture Chamber

Grahame Webb
Killer Croc!

F Paul Wilson
The Keep
The Tomb
The Touch


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