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Spawn

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I read this book when I was 14 at school - roughly 14 years ago now.
The teacher came down to the bottom of the class where I was hunched over this book - I hadn't noticed the room had gone quiet or that he was looming over me until his hand slapped down on the page.
He took it to the front and flicked through a couple of pages and then with a voice of disgust advised that this was not the sort of thing nice people read.
When I got home with my book that night I promised myself I would finish it now just to spite him.
It was utterly terrifying. Aborted featuses, loss of life.
I only read it the once but have always remembered being afraid and I associate this book with my independance, the first time I exercised my will against teacher bullies!

This is one of those books that I assumed was self-published. Realy. While I didn't find any spelling errors I did fine enough logical and continuity errors to fail a freshman Lit student! The book was GREAT however!!!

Read it, know it, be it!

I wasn't aware that, when an abortion is performed in Britain, the fetus is sent to the basement in a basket where a depressed caretaker throws it in the incinerator!!! Well; USED too - now he does different things with those fetuses....
I'll leave Shaun to tell you about what.

Anyway - loved it, didn't much manage to respect it - but LOVED it!!!

The most amazing piece of sleazy shock horror I ever read was the novel SPAWN by Shaun Hutson, about a retarded janitor at a hospital... his job was to shovel the aborted fetuses into an oven. But he feels sorry for them, see? So he saves three and buries them under an electrical pylon during a thunderstorm. Just like Frankenstein, lightning bolts bring the bodies back to life as telepathic mutant zombies! They command the retard to bring them victims so they can drink their blood! WTF? Hysterical. Also in the same vein by Hutson were SLUGS (made into a movie!), SLUGS 2: BREEDING GROUND and EREBUS.

Shaun Hutson hasn't written a horror novel for quite some time, maybe fatherhood's mellowed him a bit, but this rates as the best of his early books. It reads like a b-grade pulp horror, but as usual Hutson has done his homework and doesn't spare his readers the grisly details,with issues ranging from torture and mutilation to infanticide one would expect his work to be garbage,. Fortunately he is a very good writer with a good sense of pacing. If you haven't read Shaun Hutson before this is a good place to start.

I have only read 5 of his books, but I am really trying to get the rest of them.....In my estimation Mr. Hutson is absolutely fantastic and I have my own collection of all the horror books written and he is exceptional........holds your interest completly and fully. You are hanging off the edge of whatever your setting upon------until the end of the book...This to me makes a Good writer. I really enjoy his books no matter what the plot and look forward to the next one. Hope someday to have all of his books. My collection is paperback only and they are very, very dogeared, but I treasure each one. May God bless and keep Mr. Hutson.

Of the fourteen books of Shaun Hutson's that I have read, this is my all time favourite. The plot twists kept me guessing right to the end of the book, I even found myself on the side of the creatures that had been created from the medical graveyard which are central to the plot and their caretaker.

I read this book many years ago, and have been trying to get a copy of it for many years. It is by far the best book I have ever read. It kept me on the edge of my seat at all times and I simply could not put it down. If you like the creepy and unusual this would be the book to read...

A nice story about psychic aborted foetuses that come back to life and feed on blood. Morbid subject matter, handled skillfully and entertainingly.

Unfortunately, the character development is rather light and the twist at the end was extremely predictable. A little more work on that side of things, and it could have been a classic. Apart from that, its worth reading if you're looking for something gruesome.

I thought that this book was really excellent, it really held my attention and i just couldn't put it down. The twist at the end is brilliant and although the whole story is a bit morbid, I thought it was really good. One of the best books ive ever read.

Spawn is the fourth book by Shaun Hutson that I have read (Complusion; Relics; Breeding Ground) and as always utterly addictive and very bloody.

The book starts with Harold Pierce accidentally starting a fire in his home and accidentally killing his mother and baby brother in what is probably the most brutally graphic burning scene ever written.
Years later he is released from a mental home where he is given a job at a local hospital burning aborted foetuses. Harold feels sorry for them and burries them in a field outside the hospital. There is soon a freak lightening storm which brings the foetus' back to life...