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Summary: heart pounding story
Review: It is difficult for a novel to frighten me. This one scared the hell out of me. A constant roller coaster and bone chiller, this book had been given to me by a friend who was too scared to finish it.
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Summary: Sick of over-romanticized vampire fiction? Read this.
Review: Leave it to the splatterpunks to serve up a glorious, visceral reminder that vampires are not a bunch of heroic, black-clad figures with picky appetites.Light at the End is one of Skipp & Spector's best works. The story of the brief, but violent life of a nihilistic vampire in New York City, and told primarily from the point of view of his would-be killers, this novel runs seamlessly from start to finish. It is both well-conceived and well-actualized, with interesting characters, lots of action, and most important, lots of thought-provoking plot. This book is the best remedy I've found for a litarary world overflowing with Anne Ricean-clone vampires. Van Helsing would be proud.
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Summary: Sick of over-romanticized vampire fiction? Read this.
Review: Leave it to the splatterpunks to serve up a glorious, visceral reminder that vampires are not a bunch of heroic, black-clad figures with picky appetites. Light at the End is one of Skipp & Spector's best works. The story of the brief, but violent life of a nihilistic vampire in New York City, and told primarily from the point of view of his would-be killers, this novel runs seamlessly from start to finish. It is both well-conceived and well-actualized, with interesting characters, lots of action, and most important, lots of thought-provoking plot. This book is the best remedy I've found for a litarary world overflowing with Anne Ricean-clone vampires. Van Helsing would be proud.
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Summary: this is my second favorite book
Review: my first favorite would be It, but this definately comes a close second. The style of writing is slightly cheesy, but it brings great imagery together with characters that you can feel for. I have read this book about 5 times, and it has never taken me longer than one night to finish it because it is a masterpiece that you can't put down.
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Summary: The greatest vampire story ever!
Review: Skipp and Spector incredibly combine a character driven thriller with cutting edge hack and slash horror. Their take take on vampires, realistic rather than romantic, provides for a terrifyingly believable plot. The characters are endearing, so much so I found myself attatched. This adds to the suppense of who lives and who dies. {with this one you never know} This is one of the few books I can read over and over. It inspired me to go back to the typewriter. For scarier try The Bridge, skipp and spector For a near religeous experience try Animals, skipp and spector
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Summary: Nastiness Bites
Review: Thanks to Skipp and Spector, we have come to know the dark truth about what lurks in the subterranean realm of New York's sewers. When I first read this book nearly 20 years ago this backdrop, coupled with a fresh and innovate plot quickly made it one of my favorite horror stories. Not all vampires are romantic. What would happen if a local jerk happens to meet up with the kind of evil that turns subway trains into bloodbags, and is 'drafted' into a new world. You would get a jerky vampire, of course, and Rudy Pasko is just as unpleasant dead as he is alive.
From his subterranean demesne Rudy sets about being nasty and all that stands between him and world dominion is strange cast of characters that include truck drivers, messengers, students, game players, and would be writers. That and a few forces even bleaker than Rudy himself. Badness is due to happen, not all will survive, and the tunnel turns out to have a few extra kinks. Spector and Skipp write in a helter-skelter style that catches the edginess of life on the fringe of New York City - out there where the glamour doesn't ever go.
For all the adventure of pushing the limits of horror Skipp and Spector remember that what scares you are the things you can't get used to, not a continuous flow of gore and the result is a story that is both chilling and magnetic. They are not by any means the first to use graphic imagery (Straub's Floating Dragon still haunts me today) but the are the first to bring nitty gritty characters into the spotlight and make this story as much about them as it is by the world's most offensive vampire.
A great deal of 'aura' has grown up around this book. Most of this concerns its role in the horror genre and as a source for the 'splatterpunk' as a writing style. To some degree this is true, but much depends on your definition of splatterpunk, a term which was originally coined by David Schow and arose more from George Romero's films than written literature. Skipp and Spector's own definition can be found in the introduction to the hard cover edition. The bluntest definition is a radical relaxing of what society considers good taste and a tendency to make heroes out of folks who would normally be villains and bystanders.
The odd thing is that, despite the graphic violence of The Light at the End, it never really lapses into bad taste, and the ragtag group that takes one the world's uncoolest vampire are quite sympathetic in spite of their flaws. So Skipp and Spector in their first (and I thing their best) effort were openers of the way more than the darkest of practitioners. This alone is the book worth searching out and reading if your taste runs to the grimly humorous. In the authors' later work the need to be unnerving began to erode the desire to have a good story. But this time they were spot on and its well worth hunting up a copy. Whether you care about it's significance to literary history or not.
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Summary: The Light at the End is a ride that doesn't slow down.
Review: The author team of John Skipp and Craig Spector come together for a novel that "grabs you by the throat" and lets go only after you close the cover. At times, the story followed me into my sleep. The authors do an outstanding job detailing the attacks. They never let you in on what is really causing the murders. If horror is your "fave" give this novel a gander and I promise you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Very Creepy!
Review: This book really creeped me out. Dark subway tunnels, vampires that are both disgusting and sensual. Skipp & Spector rock. This is one of their best novels.
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Summary: Most original vampire novel since Stoker's Dracula.
Review: This book takes the ordinary lives of many New York twenty-somethinds andweaves them together masterfully through a mass murdering subway passenger. Is it a psycho or something more than human. Wouldn't you like to know!
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Summary: Absolutely the BEST vampire novel ever written!
Review: This book was suggested to me by a friend who said it was the scariest book he'd ever read. I kid you not, this book was creepy! Besides it's scary side, it has incredible detail and descriptions, a great, flowing storyline, and characters that you can picture vividly in your head. This is, quite easily, one of the best books I've ever read. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes vampires, horror novels, or likes to be scared. You'll jump and gasp with every turn of the page!
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