In Victorian England, during the intensity of the Crimean War, a man is killing off upper class members of British Society one by one. Set on revenge to right a wrong from long ago, the killer is performing these deeds in outlandish and garish ways. At each murder scene he leaves the name of a man...
The small Wyoming town of Potters Field is in the middle of cattle and horse country. When animals begin to get mutilated wild dogs, wolves, coyotes or even a cougar are the usual suspects, except the livestock is not being eaten, just eviscerated. Enter (appropriately named) Nathan Slaughter, tra...
Every once in a while you come across a little gem. This novella is one & ironically, that is also its plot. In the introduction David Morrell writes about J.D. Salinger & his influence. Not just his prose but the mystique that grew around him after he withdrew from the world at large. What follow...
In most of the anthologies that I've read there are often some good stories, some bad stories, and some in between. The end result is that I usually feel ambivalent. When I first started reading Shadow Show, I thought this anthology would be more of the same after reading the first story, which was ...
I first heard about the Ratcliffe Highway murders by reading about them in P.D. James’ The Murder Room. I eventually read the book she co-authored about the murders (which is not as good as her fiction), and I picked this up because of the reference to the murders as well as De Quincy. ...
How do you tell if a book has samurai in it? Don't worry, they'll put a katana on the cover. A book about ninjas is a little harder, since they are invisible to anyone that hasn't just been killed by a ninja. How do you tell if a book is a thriller? Don't worry, they'll put a gun on the cover.Profes...
Scavenger, the sequel to David Morrell’s Bram Stoker winning novel Creepers, features Frank Balenger, still trying to recover from his ordeal from the previous novel, where he had been looking for his wife only to find her dead. He and Amanda, who he had saved in the previous novel, are now a couple...
It surprises me just a little that I only just discovered David Morrell's books. He writes thrillers, he's been doing so since before I was born, yet I'd never heard of him, let alone realised he was the brains behind the Rambo franchise.... Okay, that latter point is not a huge selling point, unles...
I love the cover of this book! Murder as a Fine Art has been on my "currently reading" shelf for months just so I could admire the cover art. I also love the premise of Thomas De Quincey (the author best known for Confessions of an English Opium Eater) investigating a murder in Victorian London. ...
David Morrell's acknowledged inspiration for The Shimmer is the phenomenon known as the Marfa lights. The lights are colored, basketball-sized orbs of light that appear occasionally throughout the year near the small, west Texas town of Marfa. They have been embraced by some UFO and paranormal enthu...
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