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Not His Best

Advantages: Scary, and quite original
Disadvantages: Wanders off topic sometimes

Out Are The Lights is interesting because it contains one novella and five other short stories. The big story though, is obviously the most important thing about this book. Although I found it quite an enjoyable read, I thought the storyline was a li ...

Arbobug 12.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Out Are The Lights - Richard Laymon

make sure you lock your doors and windows

Advantages: short,sharp thrills that end with a bite
Disadvantages: stories are too short to have a major impact

Out Are The Lights is a collection of one novella and five other short stories-all with a short,sharp shock at the end-reminiscent of the old Tales From The Crypt comics and their ilk from the sixties and seventies. Starting with the title story,this s ...

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Review of Out Are The Lights - Richard Laymon

Good early novel with moments of brilliance

Advantages: Interesting ideas
Disadvantages: Only occasional flashes of brilliance

Out Are the Lights is one of Laymon's early books, and depending on which edition you buy, it also comes with five short stories. The main novel is the story of a series of films which are shown at a cinema, and appear to show people actually being murder ...

philsammie 13.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Out Are The Lights - Richard Laymon

Once bitten, forever smitten

Advantages: Gripping storyline, great characters, a brilliant twist on conventional vampires
Disadvantages: If you get hooked, there are a lot of sequels to get through... not that I consider that a disadvantage myself

...Having been a fan of several horror writers, I've found myself in the horror section of book shops many times. On many such occasions I noticed Brian Lumley's Necroscope series occupying a fair bit of shelf space. Eventually I was curious enough to look f ...

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Review of Necroscope - Brian Lumley

Clumsy prose winds around an imaginative tale

Advantages: A splendid thriller, and the most innovative take on vampires thatyou'll read...
Disadvantages: Clumsy, unsubtle prose...

If you've been in a bookstore's horror section in the past fourteen or so years, at least in Britain, then you've almost certainly seen 'Necroscope' sitting on the shelves there, George Underwood's strikingly grotesque cover leaping out at you. 'Necrosco ...

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Review of Necroscope - Brian Lumley