The inseparable Byker Chapter is about six boys, one girl, growing up together in the back streets of Newcastle. Now memories are all that Richard Eden has left, and one treasured... more
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Advantages: Excellent and engrossing storyline, believable characters Disadvantages: can be a little over-descriptive in places
...fades from the photograph. Some spectre from the past, some horror they have unwittingly released, is out there on the darkened streets. Hunting them down.
They can run, but this time there is no where they can hide..."
[Text taken from rear cover of Spectre - copyright Stephen Laws]
Again nothing really special for a horror novel, but to my mind quite promising for what I saw as an unknown writer (had this been accredited to Stephen King or James ... ...so on impulse I decided to pay my £3.50 and give the man a chance.
From the moment I started the book proper, I found it difficult to put down, with its superbly written plotline flowing through the genuine characters (characters that, for a change, the reader can relate to), its immaculate attention to detail in respect of its locational setting and the excellent descriptive quality of the writing itself giving a genuine sense of creeping terror.
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The inseparable Byker Chapter is about six boys, one girl, growing up together in the back streets of Newcastle. Now memories are all that Richard Eden has left, and one treasured photograph. But suddenly, inexplicably, the images of his companions start to fade, and as they vanish, so his friends are found dead and mutilated. Something is stalking the Chapter, picking them off one by one, something connected with their past, and with the girl they used to know. This edition of "Spectre" is the author's preferred edition, revised and updated and featuring re-instated scenes, plus a new afterword.
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