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Son of the Endless Night

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Note: Some immature Mormon has been slamming my reviews because I wrote some negative reviews of books attempting to defend the Book of Mormon.

So your "helpful" votes are greatly appreciated. A short review is not necessarily a bad review if it leads you to a great novel. I've just noted the general theme. Thanks

This is one of the best horror-mysteries that I have ever read. I hate to tell too much--read a longer review after you read the novel, but there are a couple scenes in this great murder mystery that I have to mention. The man is skiing down hill at night, and skiing up the hill is another skier (coming fast--weird and scary).

The scene of the Gospel Bus (fighting evil) with a big cross on the front is another classic.

Let me quote the Los Angeles Times: "Risky your own sanity--mine was in tatters long before I finished."

Now here are two more great horror stories. These have a coming-of-age and mystery theme, and in my mind, they are the tops. I hope you find something is my little review that makes it worth reading.

"Boy's Life," by Robert McCammon
Boy's Life

"Summer of Night," by Dan Simmons.
Summer of Night (Aspect Fantasy)

This is my first novel by John farris I read. I did see The Fury years earlier,so I decided to try reading one of his novels. I can honestly say it was a fun read, lots of gore and physical descriptions of the evil events. I must also add that Farris does like to put in alot of sex, and can be pornographic at times, I didn't expect it from a horror novel, but what the heck it was still fun. If you liked THE EXORCIST This would have been a worthy companion to that story.
IN A NUTSHELL: Guy becomes possessed by a ruthless spirit, guy gets arrested and goes to court for murder. Now the spirit wants to prove in court that he legally exsists. How you ask? By putting on a "Demonic Show" for the Jury. This is when it gets wild, thats all I'll say. ENJOY!

I've never read many books outside the ones that were mandatory to read in my high school. I picked "Son of the Endless Night" up out of a local library when I decided to buy a few books to try and get into reading. And I must say that this book did exactly that. Now, I just dont know what other catagories of books to try and read except for "Horror", for John Farris's descriptive detail in the interesting relations of Good vs. Evil had to be, in my opinion, one of the all time greatest.

A demonically possessed young man commits a horrible murder, or the spirit controlling his body does, and now the forces of darkness want the boy taken to trial. Anyone that stands in its way is destroyed in rather gruesome and disturbing ways. Although the book goes way over the top, would you believe on unfortunate soul being dispatched via the commode?, the book never becomes silly. It remains a suspenseful and scary ride to its harrowing conclusion. Highly recommended.

I read this book about 10 years ago! I was thinking about it the other night and I wanted to buy another copy for my collection (I loaned my other copy to a friend)! Now it's out of print! This book is one of THE all time best! John Farris is a creative genius!

This is the stuff that reading is all about. Every book should be like this book. John Farris is in so many ways better than anyone else. He is in every way equal to King. I used to read him a long time ago. I would borrow his books from the library, you know the old hard back copies that were almost going to pieces. Funny to think of all the people before me who stayed up late at night with that very same copy of the book reading the very same pages, licking their index fingers and turning each page with such anticipation because that's what a John Farris book will do to you. It will cause you to bring home a dilapitated copy of a book that is probably infected with all manner of disgusting germs from hundreds of peoples' saliva, and knowing this full well you will still bring this book to your bed and enjoy every minute of OCD anxiety it causes you because John Farris is THAT good. Love this and every other John Farris book i have ever read. But this one was by far the best and definitely on my top 10 best horror of all time, and i have read a lot!

I thought this was a great book. The ending was a little weak. I thought there could've been more written, just to finish the story satisfactorily. But I really enjoyed it.

Loved the slow tape "ZAAARRACHH-ROOOUUUMB-AAAGGGH!" and the tire iron - euuch!

A good book the the ending was just a little weak.I will seek out other works by the same author.

I must say that out of all the horror novels I've read, this one is by far the scariest of them all. It is the only book that ever kept me up at night.