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Advantages: Unusual body / soul possessions etc
Disadvantages: Quite slow and boring at the beginning

This is a Shaun Hutson type gruesome horror. It starts off quite slow and boring... like a crime novel - trying to solve the mystery behind a murder. The unusual thing is that the detective is the murdered victim! Half-way through, the book it gets really twisted and has a very original storyline - involving possesion of dead bodies! It is a bit like watching a horror movie. You follow the main character, deceased, who sees people getting killed ...
...scream at characters in a horror movie "don't answer the front door" etc, you will scream the same thing at people in the book! It is compelling... you constantly want to know what is going to happen next. You may also, inadvertently, become attached to the murderer and sympathise with him/her in the end - at least I did! The mystery behind the killers reasoning is quite sad and tear-jerking! It is an unusual type of story for James Herbert... ... Read review

Advantages: Contains some of Stephen King's best recent horror stories
Disadvantages: Compared to his earlier collections is a bit more hit-and-miss

'Everything's Eventual' (2002) by Stephen King **** This is the first collection of short stories by Stephen King I have read since 'Four Past Midnight' way back in 1990. I have always considered him a master of the form and, if anything, a better short story writer than he is a novelist - though I'm sure he wouldn't be too pleased to hear it. Previous collections include: 'Night Shift' (1978) ***** [astonishingly good], 'Different Seasons' (1982) ...
...(1990) ****½, 'Nightmares And Dreamscapes' (1993) & 'Hearts In Atlantis' (1999) - the last two of which I have yet to read. Compared to his early superlative collections I have to say 'Everything's Eventual' is something of a mixed bag. Never less than entertaining there are still more filler stories here than in my previous experience and rather too many moments when, having finished a tale, I couldn't help thinking "it was okay but King is capable ... Read review

Advantages: Hot vampire/werewolf naughtiness with spooky thrills.
Disadvantages: Too many ramblings about relationships at the expense of the plot.

...have been sharply divided over the direction this longstanding series has taken: a quick Google will bring up some highly entertaining spats on assorted chat forums. Basically, if you enjoyed the earlier books but got freaked out by the kinky sex that started featuring more and more heavily after Narcissus in Chains then there's going to be plenty more to freak you through the wall and back in this one. However, if you enjoy great chunks of spooky ... Read review

Advantages: good book
Disadvantages: none

Interview with a Vampire is the first book from the Vampire Chronicles. Louis a land owner from Louisiana relates his life story. After his brother dies his life doesn't make any sense and he searches death every were he goes. Lestat a vampire falls in love with Louis and transforms him into a vampire.After living for a period of time together in Louisiana they run to New Orleans where Louis finds Claudia an orphan and after draining her Lestat ... Read review

Advantages: Very interesting, good writing,well rounded characters, etc
Disadvantages: none

...book. It's a change from the vampire novels she usually writes with a twist; and each moment in the first section had me looking forward to the moment when Ramses would rise and make himself known to the outside world. The plot is interesting and it makes you melt away into the book as usual; as well as the characters are well rounded unlike many such books of its kind. It's not scary like Stephen King novels, jsut unusual and brilliant. PLOT: This ...
...originally intended to be the script for a movie is what I heard, until the makers of the movie decided to change nearly everything. It is about what happens when an archaeologist find the mummy, Ramses II and then after he dies, the mummy and the archaeologist's treasures are given to his daughter Julie in England who finds that the mummy comes to life to be a man. ... Read review