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Summary: In your Face Horror by Craig Spector
Review: "The Light at the End" is vampire horror at it's best. This novel is slick and sophisticated, written for an audience that is no longer satisfied with being spoon fed the same old plot. Fortunately, this novel has been re-released only recently in hardcover by a new press Stealth Press. (www.stealthpress.com). Finally this classic is again in print. New York is the type of city that anything can happen in. In this novel, we are taken into the world of "what if" when an old world vampire comes to see the sites and leaves the city with a legacy of it's own in the form of a nihilistic young artist turned vampire, with an ax to grind. This novel steps out of the splatterpunk stereotype with it's gritty and realistic characters and a willingness to take chances with plot and its readers. There is no neat and tidy package from this author- he takes the story around with a realistic unpredictability and a tangible sense of fear. Bloody, yes, but the violence is not the star of this novel by far. Read it for the plot. Read it for the intense, razor sharp writing style, just don't expect to put it down.
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Summary: In your Face Horror by Craig Spector
Review: "The Light at the End" is vampire horror at it's best. This novel is slick and sophisticated, written for an audience that is no longer satisfied with being spoon fed the same old plot. Fortunately, this novel has been re-released only recently in hardcover by a new press Stealth Press. (www.stealthpress.com). Finally this classic is again in print. New York is the type of city that anything can happen in. In this novel, we are taken into the world of "what if" when an old world vampire comes to see the sites and leaves the city with a legacy of it's own in the form of a nihilistic young artist turned vampire, with an ax to grind. This novel steps out of the splatterpunk stereotype with it's gritty and realistic characters and a willingness to take chances with plot and its readers. There is no neat and tidy package from this author- he takes the story around with a realistic unpredictability and a tangible sense of fear. Bloody, yes, but the violence is not the star of this novel by far. Read it for the plot. Read it for the intense, razor sharp writing style, just don't expect to put it down.
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Summary: A first novel from a very talented team.
Review: 1980s' NYC: A young man named Rudy meets a gentlemen on a train who, well, _changes_ him. Rudy's newfound power drives him mad, and it's up to a diverse group of bike messengers, goth queens and tortured artists to stop him. John Skipp and Craig Spector wrote six books (as well as the screenplay for "Fright Night"): The Light At The End, The Cleanup, The Scream, Deadlines, The Bridge, and Animals. They also edited the Book of the Dead 1 and 2, a collection of short stories inspired by the George Romero "Dead" films. As writers, their power is not just in their gore (though their books are plenty bloody); it's the intelligence and depth of their characters. The characters in S&S books are _plausible_; whether they're heroes or villians, sages or idiots, they are aware and you don't follow them so much as walk beside them. From Billy Rowe's twisted do-good instinct in "The Cleanup" to John Paul Rowan's self-justifying narcissism in "Deadlines" to the man who exists for one scene in "The Bridge" but in that scene attempts to summon the power of his existence to break free of a killer's grip and succeeds in moving exactly one inch, the characters in S&S stories live and breathe. Read their books if you can find them. "The Light at The End" is notable for having the largest cast of narrated characters of any of their books (though "The Scream" comes close). Even if you have no interest in 1980s' NYC, the characters at Your Kind Of Messengers, Inc and poor doomed Claire Cunningham will draw you into the story.
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Summary: Very Gory, Very Good.
Review: First off, if you are sick of the Anne Rice vampires who have a cheesy accent, and whine and complain about the "dark gift" of being a vampire, then this book is for you. The vampire in this book is anything but whiny. However, if you like your vampire books with a ruthless vampire that kills without compassion, morals, or even a second thought, then this book is for you. Skipp and Spector have a very strong writing style. Strong in that this is a real page turner filled with violence and gore around every turn. For example, just wait till you read what happens in a movie theater. This book is pretty much out of print. I was lucky enough to find my copy at a used bookstore. I urge you to go out and hunt for this book. I can promise you that you won't be sorry. If you like your vampires to kill without reason, then you have to start this book. You'll love every page. That I can promise you.
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Summary: Very Gory, Very Good.
Review: First off, if you are sick of the Anne Rice vampires who have a cheesy accent, and whine and complain about the "dark gift" of being a vampire, then this book is for you. The vampire in this book is anything but whiny. However, if you like your vampire books with a ruthless vampire that kills without compassion, morals, or even a second thought, then this book is for you. Skipp and Spector have a very strong writing style. Strong in that this is a real page turner filled with violence and gore around every turn. For example, just wait till you read what happens in a movie theater. This book is pretty much out of print. I was lucky enough to find my copy at a used bookstore. I urge you to go out and hunt for this book. I can promise you that you won't be sorry. If you like your vampires to kill without reason, then you have to start this book. You'll love every page. That I can promise you.
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Summary: Add it to your vampire collection
Review: I believe John Skipp and Craig Spector never quite got the recognition they deserved. "Light at the End" was both applauded and dismissed as "splatter punk" at the time, but it's a story that has much more merit than that. Yes, the authors paint a harshly realistic picture of what might happen if vampires infested New York -- and it ain't pretty. But there is a richness of characterization in this story that works to balance the gore. I rank this one right under Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" as a story that continues to haunt you long after you put the book down.
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Summary: Add it to your vampire collection
Review: I believe John Skipp and Craig Spector never quite got the recognition they deserved. "Light at the End" was both applauded and dismissed as "splatter punk" at the time, but it's a story that has much more merit than that. Yes, the authors paint a harshly realistic picture of what might happen if vampires infested New York -- and it ain't pretty. But there is a richness of characterization in this story that works to balance the gore. I rank this one right under Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" as a story that continues to haunt you long after you put the book down.
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Summary: Add it to your vampire collection
Review: I believe John Skipp and Craig Spector never quite got the recognition they deserved. "Light at the End" was both applauded and dismissed as "splatter punk" at the time, but it's a story that has much more merit than that. Yes, the authors paint a harshly realistic picture of what might happen if vampires infested New York -- and it ain't pretty. But there is a richness of characterization in this story that works to balance the gore. I rank this one right under Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" as a story that continues to haunt you long after you put the book down.
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Summary: A classic horror must-read
Review: I don't usually like this kind of horror best-sellers, but after reading a good comment on it in a fanzine, and having seen it in an old-book store, I tried it. And it was worthwhile. The action and panic grip you and the scenes are so real, still being a vampire story, that you must grasp for breath. A friend of mine, who laughs reading King's books, could not finish this one, scared.
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Summary: the best vampire book i have ever read .
Review: i read this book in 1985 and this is the book i compare all other movies and books to. this book made me think that vampires really exist. i am not afraid of vampires but do they reallly exist?
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