My Review (5 stars out of 5) After years of struggling with addiction, Sydney finds herself and her young son in a nice house, with a decent job and a loving partner. But when she unexpectedly encounters a burglar, the sequence of events before her escape to a neighbour’s house, become blurred. While she’s recovering…
Category: Horror
‘Hannibal’ by Thomas Harris
My Review (5 stars out of 5) FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling finds her career hitting the skids after a drug bust goes badly wrong. While arch enemy Hannibal Lecter takes up a new post in Florence, Italy, former Lecter patient Mason Verger and Italian detective Rinaldo Pazzi are hot on his trail. But it’s…
‘Christine’ by Stephen King
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Christine, a 1958 Plymouth Fury, is past her best – beaten up, broken and leaking oil, she needs a shed load of work to get her on the road again. But high-school student Arnie Cunningham sees something in her that grabs him by the throat. Negotiating a deal…
‘Off Season’ by Jack Ketchum
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A New York book editor invites her sister and a few friends to spend a few days in the lonely cabin she’s rented near the quiet beach town of Dead River. Shortly after the friends arrive, a strange tribe of cannibals descend on the isolated house. Meanwhile, the…
‘The Fog’ by James Herbert
My Review (4 stars out of 5) A village turns into a disaster zone when huge crevasses open up in the road, causing people and cars to tumble into its depths. But oozing up from the bottom of one of the chasms is a mysterious yellow fog. As the strange haze moves around the countryside,…
‘When Darkness Falls’ by Kathleen Harryman
My Review (4 stars out of 5) In the historic city of York, a dangerous and blood-thirsty serial killer is on the loose. Unfortunately for the police, evidence is thin on the ground, the killer’s modus operandi often varies, and the choice of victims refuses to conform to any logical pattern. However, it seems one…
‘The Dead Zone’ by Stephen King
My Review (5 stars out of 5) With girlfriend Sarah in tow, Johnny Smith has a run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, but after dropping his girl off at home, Johnny’s cab is involved in a head-on collision, killing the driver and leaving Johnny in a coma. Waking up almost five years later,…
‘The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories’ by Johnny Mains
My Review (3 stars out of 5) The series known as the Pan Book of Horror Stories ran for 30 volumes between 1959 and 1989. In this latest version, editor Johnny Mains has collected a host of new stories along with several from the original series. As a teenager, this series was one of…
‘Ring’ by Koji Suzuki
My Review (3 stars out of 5) Journalist Asakawa writes for his newspaper’s weekly magazine and is keen to seek out great news stories. Hearing about a series of weird deaths, he realises they may be linked. Discovering the deaths occurred after the four teenagers spent a night in the same log cabin, he books…
‘Carrie’ by Stephen King
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Unpopular teenager Carrie White is no ordinary girl and when a traumatic event unnerves her, she begins to harness the power inside her mind – telekinesis. When one of the girls who tormented her feels guilty, she persuades her boyfriend to ask Carrie out to the high school…
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