The Bridge [Mass Market Paperback]

John Skipp (Author), Craig Spector (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1991

Paradise is a small industrial city in Pennsylvania that’s about to become Ground Zero for the end of the world.  For far too long, we’ve been poisoning the planet with toxic waste.  Not any more.  This morning something finally woke up in Paradise.  It’s intelligent, virulent and ambitious.  It’s everywhere, in the water we drink, the air we breathe.  And it won’t be satisfied until we’re gone. 

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“This is the New Horror at work; fast-paced and passionate, breaking new ground as it uncovers the faces that fear wears in the century's final decade.” –Clive Barker

 “A novel of brilliance, overflowing with talent and originality.” —Richard Christian Matheson

 “Important and terrifying. The Bridge is a potent gateway drug into the world of literary splatter that changed my life. More relevant today than when it was first published.”—Joe Lynch, Director of Wrong Turn 2

“The seminal splatterpunk novel that redefined the genre. The Bridge has lost none of its intensity or power.”—Brian Keene, Author of Darkness on the Edge of Town

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

John Skipp is a bestselling author and screenwriter whose eleven books have sold millions of copies and are reprinted in nine languages. As co-author with Craig Spector, he wrote six novels from 1986 to 1993 that completely re-invented horror.  Of their first three novels, The Light at the End, The Cleanup and The Scream, each sold over a million copies and two made the New York Times bestseller list. Together they provided the story for the 1989 film A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child.  Other books by Cody Goodfellow include Radiant Dawn (Perilous Press, 2000) and Ravenous Dusk (Perilous Press, 2003).

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Spectra (September 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553290274
• ISBN-13: 978-0553290271
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,718,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the greatest horror I've ever read!, January 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bridge (Mass Market Paperback)

This is far and away the greatest horror I have read. Nailed clean in the style that Skipp and Spector mastered so well, a craftily ironic tone that your own mind uses in its more honest moments, this constantly claustrophobicly narrowing vision of the environmental haulocaust to come grabs you by the short and curlies demands that you should SIT RIGHT BACK and hear of the coming tribulation. The deftness which with it was handled, the delecate suspension of disbelief holds even with the fantastic swirling and gelling. They were the best horror going in the '80s and early '90s, no debate and bar none. I miss them all the time, and boys and girls, this is as good as it got. Maybe the best it could get.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Ride to the end of OUR World, October 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bridge (Mass Market Paperback)

An Absolute MUST-READ, this one grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until it has shredded your sensibilities and made you think twice about even turning on the water faucet. With characters you care about, Bad and Good, and an inexorable march to destruction that seems to have No savior...heroes still emerge and save what they can in a hopeless situation. The writing is excellent with details that are vivid but never diving into gore overdrive.....well, maybe a little but what the hell. These guys bring the goods and not only do they not "pull any punches"...they punch through your skull and rip out your cerebral cortex.......If you find it .....BUY IT......

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Devastating, painful, and brilliant, January 6, 2000

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cr0wgrrl (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bridge (Mass Market Paperback)

Nature evolves according to its environment and the changes in its ecosystem. Poison it too much, and it will compensate in the most horrific way possible.

This book was very painful to read, like watching a train speed off its tracks into a playground full of children. Relentless and unforgiving, its plot held me captive from start to finish, unable to put it down no matter how much I wanted to.

This is not a book you will read over and over again, but it is a book you should read at least once.