The Howling

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Summary: The book that started it all for me...
Review: Gary Brander's HOWLING was the first adult horor novel I ever read (back in 1978, when I was 11 or 12) and I credit it with launching my lifetime love (and obsession) for horror fiction. It's a bit tame by today's standards, but it is so engaging and neat, that I still find myself picking it up every few years to relive the excitement and delightful terror that it inspired in me the first time I read it... A young woman is brutally raped and under the advice of her therapist, she and her husband vacation in a small rural town called Drago. Despite the picturesque town and it's beautiful forests, the citizens of Drago are hiding a dark secret. A secret betrayed by an inhuman howling that echoes through the night beneath the full moon. The young woman soon finds that nothing is as it seems and soon she will be running for her life from mythical horrors... Brander's clear, concise writing and his tight plotting serve the story very well and it has genuine creepiness in it. (Something that's missing from a lot of modern horror fiction.) In my opinion, Brander is the "Godfather of Horror".

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Summary: Gary bradners the Howling were it all began
Review: I have disided to write reviews for some of Gary Bradners books since so many have no reviews. His books are not masterpecese but they are fun and I hope these reviews will help other people find and enjoy his work. The Howling is his first book. It is a very enjoyable read. It begins when Karen gets raped. Bradner amedetly shocks us with the brutality and graficness of the rape. Karens husband takes her into the peecful country villeg of Drago to recover. The have caben deep in the woods( perfect setting). She begins to hear howling at night. Then strang things start happening. There is an excellent but very diffrent film vertion of this book. I confess I would not have read this book and discoverd Bradner if it was not for the movei. Its my favorit werewolf flick. The book focuses on the desenagration of Karen and Roys relationship. Karen cant sleep with roy becuse of her tromatic experents. Roy is sexualy unsadisfide and has to fight his attraction to Marca. Marca suduces him. Its interesting how bradner adds a new side to the love triangle by bring in a new carecter. An x nune who . . . fights her atraction to her frend Karen. She is a very important carecter. She tells karen about the towns dark history. Twords the ending Karen is thrown in to a horrfic nightmare as the howling gets closer and closer and the moon gets full. Karen must face Dragos horific secret My second favorite Gary Bradner book. An excelent place to start. three and a half stares.

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Summary: The Howling
Review: Rent the movie. It's far more interesting. While reading this book I got the feeling that the author was relying a bit too much on shock value and sacrificing plot. Having seen the movie in the past, I was disappointed with the novel.

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Summary: Tremendous! Horror and Werewolf enthusiasts, don't loose it
Review: This book has a lot of suspense and mystery. The way the secrets are managed is incredible, a crescent doubt until finally things already suspected are getting more and more clear, but then, the tension is already unbearable and the extreme danger already dominating: just too late. This is one rare opportunity to get into a entirely different approach to the werewolf myth, not a cursed nature but a wild and extremely unpredictable one. Also, there is place for sensuality around the sexy sinister Marcia: fear and attraction at the same time. Joe Dante's movie "The Howling" from 1980 is based in this novel, with some considerable differences that make both of them going to other directions but still related, and both of them very interesting. The book is just perfect for horror readers.

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Summary: Allright....
Review: This book was good but wasn't great. There weren't too many frightening scenes, really. When you get down to it, the beginning rape scene is more shocking than anything else. This book also has a few explicit depictions of sex whichh makes the reader wonder whether or not this is a porno that claims to be horror. If you like this type of stuff, than make a decision. If you're looking for horror prepared to be disappointed. The funny thing is that you want to read it all the way through no matter what. Not bad.