Advantages: Classic Horror Novel Disadvantages: Not to everyone's taste
The Keep was the first novel I read by the author F. Paul Wilson and is the first in a series of six novels that make up "The Adversary" series. The Adversary in the series being effectively the devil or evil personified.
The frontispiece acknowledges a debt to H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, but the novel is the product of Wilson's brilliantly inventive mind. The title is the catch tag from the cover of the book. Before I go any further, ...
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Advantages: brilliant writing, addictive, genuinely creepy Disadvantages: none that spring to mind
...tell you if this was the first horror novel I read(point horror so does not count!). It was also the first book to scare me completely witless. And after a few years, I decided to go back.
The cover shown on Ciao is not the same cover on my version(it's old!) but it was the cover that initially terrified me. I then read it, and found myself even more terrified. Being a student of AS level history(don't laugh!) I found the Keep to be quite accurate ...
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