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5.0 out of 5 stars
Quiet, Atmospheric Horror from one of the 1980's BEST
Alan Ryan writes atmospheric supernatural horror - one of my favorite writes from the 1980s. The Kill, Dead White and Cast A Cold Eye are great reads. The Kill is an excellent example of a novel not requiring blood and gore to be scary and entertaining. Very believable characters in unusual circumstances.
Published 8 months ago by Keith E. Hammer
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2.0 out of 5 stars
One Word: Boring!
The Kill is about a tiny hamlet in the Catskills Named Deacon's Kill where there is apparently an invisible child-killing beast roaming the dark woods surrounding the town. Jack and Megan are two yuppies (yes, this was written in the 80's-obviously) who are overstressed and bored with life in Manhattan and long for a simpler life in the country. A...
Published 9 months ago by Shannon M.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Quiet, Atmospheric Horror from one of the 1980's BEST,
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This review is from: The Kill (Necon Classic Horror) (Kindle Edition)
Alan Ryan writes atmospheric supernatural horror - one of my favorite writes from the 1980s. The Kill, Dead White and Cast A Cold Eye are great reads. The Kill is an excellent example of a novel not requiring blood and gore to be scary and entertaining. Very believable characters in unusual circumstances.
2.0 out of 5 stars
One Word: Boring!,
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This review is from: The Kill (Paperback)
The Kill is about a tiny hamlet in the Catskills Named Deacon's Kill where there is apparently an invisible
child-killing beast roaming the dark woods surrounding the town. Jack and Megan are two yuppies (yes, this was written in the 80's-obviously) who are overstressed and bored with life in Manhattan and long for a simpler life in the country. A spoiled rich trust fund baby that they know has just on impulse bought a house in Deacon's Kill, and a chartered bus ferries them all to the hills of upstate New York to check it out. Once there, a younger member of the party is killed in the woods in the afore- mentioned fashion. Everyone else wisely hotfoots it back to the city. But not Jack and Megan. They've decided they love the place and want to stay. For the first hundred pages, I was interested. Character development was pretty good, and I found myself caring for Jack and Megan. Even the quaint small town sheriff they go to after the murder named John Chand is likable,if somewhat inept. He tends to stand around merely staring at the crime scene without a clue what to do. I began to lose interest because the book took soooo looooong to build suspense that I finally got frustrated and quit. The fact that Jack and Megan felt isolated and helpless out in the country with no phone service (the 80s, remember: no cell phones, no computers) could have been very creepy if it was better written, or at least if the action moved along at a swifter pace. There seemed to be no sense of imminent danger in the book. I never felt that the characters' lives were at stake. It just wasn't my type of book. If you like your horror on the Extremely Lite side, very, very mild with very few real scares, then you might enjoy it. Otherwise, skip it. |
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The Kill by Alan Ryan (Paperback - Jan. 1988)
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