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What would you do if your loved one returned from the graveyard?

Advantages: interesting themes, atmospheric read, convincing characterisation
Disadvantages: you have to be willing to suspend disbelief

I had heard of ‘Let the Right one in’, Lindqvist’s previous novel, and had vaguely thought that I’d quite like to read it. I was interested in the way it played with the old story of vampires. Similarly, when I heard the premise of this book, I was pleasa ...

brokenangelkisses 26.05.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Handling the Undead - John Ajvide Lindqvist

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Twisted Brilliance

Advantages: Paranoia, action, truly disturbing imagery - what's not to love?
Disadvantages: Loathers of Cthulu related fiction may approach this with trepidation, but there's nothing to fear.

'Hush', by Tim Lebbon and Gavin Williams, may well be the British horror novel of the year, and I don't say that lightly. It's been an excellent start to the century for high quality horror publishing, but I think this may steal the year by a nose. Ja ...

RichardW 12.12.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Hush - Tim Lebbon

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