Creed [Paperback]

James Herbert (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1991

Creed is a photographer who specializes in catching celebrities in off-guard moments outside night-clubs or on topless beaches. He thinks he has seen it all. But he is about to see something through the viewfinder of his camera that will plunge him into a terrifying world beyond imagining.

Editorial Reviews

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"'Chilling event follows chilling event... The plot thickens. Your head spins' Daily Mail; 'He is one of the few writers taking forward the tradition of the great supernatural storytellers - and being innovative' Evening Standard; 'A streamlined racehorse of a book, pulsing with energy, Creed will delight Herbert fans, and surely astonish them' Fear Magazine" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

James Herbert is not just Britain's No. 1 bestselling writer of chiller fiction, a position he has held since publication of his first novel, but is one of our greatest popular novelists, whose books are sold in thirty-three other languages, including Russian and Chinese. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his twenty novels have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: New English Library; New Ed edition (July 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0450547434
• ISBN-13: 978-0450547430
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,823,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Discovering Demons, January 1, 2005

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OverTheMoon ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creed (Paperback)

Remember the movie The Omen where David Warner's character, a photographer, starts to find strange images in the photographs he takes of people? Well Creed is one big book about that as paparazzo Joe Creed, a character of the Princess Diana chasing type, finds himself photographing an important figure doing something over a coffin after a funeral which results in various forces coming after him to get the negatives. Creed then begins to unravel a world where monsters and demons exist and are aided by the rich and famous who he makes his living from. It makes for an original piece of reading, although not exactly hollywood material, comes across as very frightening most of the time and for that does exactly what it says on the label. Well worth discovering Herbert through this book and his other good one, Fluke.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Readable and entertaining, February 6, 2002

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Penguin Egg (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creed (Unbound)

The hero of this book, Joe Creed, is a sleezebag paparazzo, which is the singular noun for paparazzi. He has few positive attributes. He would do anything to get a good photograph so that he can sell it to the newspapers. He has an ex-wife whom he hates. He even hates his young son. This unendearing character holds our attention because of his complete lack of scruples. What makes this book so satisfying is that, despite himself, he does the decent thing, and at the end of the book, he becomes it's hero. It even has the corps of the paparazzi charging to the rescue like the calvary, which has got to be one of the cleverest twists I have ever read. The book is genuinely frightening. If the end doesn't quite resolve itself satisfactory, then the rest of the book succeeds in carrying you effortlessly from one page to the next.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comedy mystery horror thriller, March 31, 2009

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marky77 (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creed (Hardcover)

Herbert tackles a lot of genre's with Creed. He combines his usualy horror and thrillers styles with some black comedy (which is really funny) and overall I thought that it worked well.

Joe Creed, our anti-hero, is a paparazzo. We are told right from the start that he is selfish and basically not a good person, but he is our protagonist nonetheless.

When in a graveyard, spying on the grave of a recently burried actress, hoping to catch a crazed greiving relative or similar, Creed takes a picture of a creepy man performing sinister acts on the grave. This simple act leads him into spiriling horror as the man is one of a group of demons who have a joke to play on him...and it's not funny...it's deadly...

Lots of suspenceful, with both comical scenes and frightening scenes throw in for good measure. I gave this a 4 star rating because there were a few parts I thought dragged a bit (3 stars) but also parts of sheer brilliant that had me unable to put the book down (5 stars). Deffinatly worth a read if you are a James Herbert fan. Nobody has given this a negative review.