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Night Warriors (Death)

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I've been on a Masterton kick for the past couple of months and recently reread this gem after many years...A group of strangers come together at the scene of a gruesome death. A nude woman is found on the beach, her stomach writhing with freakish, bloodthirsty eels. The strangers soon learn that their meeting is more like fate and what they have witnessed is the birth of the "nightspawn", the brood of an ancient demon that lives in the nightmares of humanity. The demon is on the verge of invading the waking world and the group is enlisted by a strange, angel-like creature that tells them they are the living inheritors to the legacy of the "night warriors", a group who can leave their bodies and move through the world of men's dreams to fight the demon... Masterton has one of the most amazing imaginations in all of horror fiction and this first in a trilogy (where nearly all of the books stand-alone,) is a gruesome thrill-ride. It has some of the most grotesque and memorable scenes in all of horror fiction. There's a scene where a housewife gives birth to more of the nightspawn and it is one of the bloodiest and most outrageous scenes I've ever read. I was gasping out loud as I read it. For Masterton fans and horror fans, this book is a must. The more of his work I read, the more I'm beginning to think that he is one of the best horror writers working today.

Like many of Masterton's works, this book has a solid and intriguing concept behind it: Ordinary individuals, by way of shared lucid dreaming, battle nightmare-fiends before the creatures can become all too real.

I was told, however, that fans of Charles de Lint would enjoy Graham Masterton just as much. This wasn't the case. Masterton's writing is somehow stilted, and he often seems to go for gratuitous splatter factor in lieu of plot development.

But at least one can't fault his sick, twisted, and quite fertile imagination...

I have lots of Grahams' books....In my opinion, he's a horror writer in a genre all of his own! Now I LOVE Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Clive Barker, Thomas Harris and many others, but -I go to bed with Graham Masterton! When I don't want to sleep, -when I want an intelligent scare-the-crap-out-of-you story that lingers and keeps coming back to haunt you over and over again, any one of Graham Mastertons' books will surfice . He's simply the greatest of them all!

Masterton both sticks to his formula and kicks off a series of Dreamworld Adventures with this horror/adventure novel. An ancient demon is impregnating women in their erotic dreams so they may give birth to hellish spawn in this world. A group of people are called upon by an angel of sorts to become dream warriors to stop the grotesque invasion. The pace is brisk and the action frequent, the characters likable, and Masterton, as always, sprinkles just enough humor in the story to make it hard to dislike. Recommended.

If you can't find a book called Night Warriors. You can try and find a book originally written as Nightspawn. It's really the same book (same story) except the publisher changed the title. Hope this helps in your search.

A messanger from God is sent to bring together Night Warriors, heroes that battle demons in the dreams of man kind. this is a well written book and irecommend this to anyone who loves MASTERton and who believes in the unbelievable!!

Book 1 of the Night Warriors saga and the beginning of a great series. It was hard to swallow, with Masterton taking break from his extremely gory stuff to writing a fantasy book mixed with extreme horror. That is Night Warriors.

Several individuals are chosen by the messenger of God to do battle against evil. They have been chosen and so have their battle fields: Dreams. They not only have to worry about being killed by the demons, but also by the dreamers themselves.

Graham Masterton, a true master of horror, is one of the best horror writers out there. You will not be disappointed!

Here, three people discover a dead person, and then further discover that they have the Night Warrior ability, and at night, must enter people's dreams to fight off some evil, and some not inconsiderable risk to themselves.

Just average people during the day, the whole hero thing does not come naturally to them.