Dead Lines [Paperback]

John and Spector, Craig Sipp (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Books (1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0318399849
• ISBN-13: 978-0318399843
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,230,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best short-length horror novel I have ever read., October 14, 2002

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:L. Miller (Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Lines (Mass Market Paperback)

John Paul Rowan thinks his life is bad, so he checks out. Then he finds out what bad really is. Meanwhile, two young ladies take over his apartment (after a little cleaning and painting it looks pretty normal again) and find some of the previous occupant's stories. With a little reading and a little supernatural twiddling, the writer figuratively and literally finds his audience.

This book clicks on so many levels you'd swear it was wearing taps. From Katie's mysterious eye scar to the reprintings of Rowan's short stories this book flows and scares with ease. Skipp and Spector were always at their best writing about the Big Apple; "The Light At The End" and this are two of the best horror books I have ever read.

Find it, buy it, read it. And try to wonder what would happen if there really were Old Ones, and they really did get tired of their witching day being celebrated with Count Chocula and Austin Powers costumes....

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Is it a novel or a book of short fiction? BOTH!, December 9, 2000

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Peter Harrison (TAMPA EFF ELL A) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Lines (Mass Market Paperback)

Ah, yes, Skipp and Spector, where are they now when we need them the most? This was the fourth of their six collaborations, and as usual, it is definitely fantastic! In essence, it is a book of short stories intertwined with a framing/interlude device. The stories and the framing device are brilliantly horrifying, insightful, and at times, even bittersweet. FIND THIS BOOK AND READ IT! That goes for all of their work: The Light At The End. The Cleanup, The Scream, Dead Lines, The Bridge, and their last, but not least work, Animals. CHEERS! PJH

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars blurs the line between short story and novel, December 22, 1998

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[e-mail] (long island) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Lines (Mass Market Paperback)

If you can get a hold of it, read it. After taking over a loft, the new owners discover a box of unpublished short stories. Each is wonderfully written, and could stand alone, but the power of the novel is in how the main characters become drawn in to and addicted to the short stories, even as their lives become horribly altered by reading them. As will yours be.