Book Reviews
Misery - Stephen King
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Sunday 6 June, 2004
For 1987's Misery, Stephen King took the basic horror-fiction formula that he had been tuning for just over a decade, and mixed it up a little. The result is a story that takes place mostly in one bar... Read More...The Shining - Stephen King
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Friday 19 December, 2003
The Shining is certainly among the most famous works of horror fiction in the 20th century. Written in 1977 when King was still a comparatively inexperienced writer (this was his third book, after Car... Read More...After Midnight - Richard Laymon
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Saturday 1 November, 2003
One day while scanning the shelves of my local library I happened to discover this horror based novel, which boasted that Stephen King had said 'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a real treat' on... Read More...The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Wednesday 24 September, 2003
Written in 1987, the year that Stephen King turned 40 (and I was born!), The Eyes of the Dragon was perhaps his biggest detour of styles to date. Classed as horror on the back cover, it really leans c... Read More...The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Sunday 31 August, 2003
First question - who is Tom Gordon? He is a baseball player who closes for the Boston Red Sox, so in the UK he is almost completely unknown. Unsurprisingly, Stephen King's novel is not based around a ... Read More...A Darkness At Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist
A Darkness At Sethanon happily avoids the pitfall that seems to trip the last leg of many potentially-great trilogies from time to time, as it continues the Riftwar Saga's fine line in quality di...
'48 - James Herbert
James Herbert has been writing horror fiction for many years now, with such classics as "The Rats" and "Haunted" to name just a couple, these books have pushed him to the forefront of British horro...
Silverthorn - Raymond E. Feist
Magician was a full-blooded fantasy affair if ever there was one. Though it displayed its traditional, swords 'n' sorcery brand of fantasy with pride, it clearly didn't do things by halves; over th...
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