The Nightrunners

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Summary: Creepy
Review: Another Landsdale book that's out of stock. What a shame. This one was genuinely creepy. It could give you nightmares.

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Summary: A blast from a true master of the game...
Review: How would one describe the plot? In Hollywood terms its "Strawdogs meets The Evil Dead." I think this is Lansdale's last CONVENTIONAL horror novel to date, but man if it doesn't hold up. As always his prose is blistering and white hot. This if one man who DESERVES to have his works made into films. Read this one and you'll know why.

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Summary: Extremely scary. Extremely disturbing and very violent
Review: I got into Joe Landsdale through his comic book work and I thank G-d that he took those jobs because it lead me to this twisted nasty little edge of Hell. A nice liberal couple comes face to face with hell when the wife is raped and the husband must confront his notions about human goodness head-on and ponder whether or not he is a coward instead of a pacifist. Meanwhile the rapist, hanging in his cell, isn't completely dead as his compatriots are alive and well and one of them is possessed. The car is racing towards them ready for more death. This book brings you face to face with pure evil.

There are rough portions. The teenagers are just nasty and evil, while you can see the husband's transformation from weakling to ravenous fighter coming a mile away. But this is an amazing book on its own merits and shouldn't be read if you are expecting a deep philosophical treatise on human nature. It's just fast, evil and damn good.

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Summary: 5 years till a movie....
Review: Like all of Lansdale's stories, this one is a tour of the off beat crash course known as America. Lansdale's language is very human, without the hidden baricades that many writers use to hide there inability to tell a good story. This tale of suspense, no matter how outrageous the turns may be, is made believable by Lansdale's amazing talent to make the reader believe his words, whether they choose to or not. Lansdales best work since Mucho Mojo..

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Summary: the suspense doesn't end when the book ends..
Review: this book truly made me live all the events in it, all the thoughts, all the horror. once i started to read it i just couldn't stop, i did try.. it usually takes about half a year for me to read a book but this took only a day. the story is so captivating, to get into the minds of all the characters. i just want to read it again and again, live it once more. in the middle of the night when i finished the book i could swear i saw a wooden doll sitting close to me in a blood red chair staring to nothingness ready to break the silence.

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Summary: This is a very scary, very good book.
Review: WARNING: This book is very scary, and very very good. Read it in the daytime, with the lights on, and as many locks on the door as possible. The story never slows down, it's never rushed, and all the characters are fascinating. Also, there is a description of a house that is some of the best prose I've ever read