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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Good Solid Horror-Suspense Thriller, April 6, 2005
If you like fast-paced thrills, scary nightmarish scenes, solid plotting, and a pantheon of interesting non-cliched characters, then this is the book for you! A wonderful evening's read that takes you into a world of dark conspiracies between warring vampire families. It is given an extra shot of something special with the author's strange heroine, Professor Silver, an undead criminologist, as she walks the fine line between the dimension of the living and the dimension of the dead. Very entertaining!
I just read BloodyMary's review of this horror novel and I sure would like to know if we read the same book or not! Is she kidding? I suppose if you are a "purist" who only sees Anne Rice novels or the "Blade" movies as the only template for modern vampires, then you wouldn't like this book, but I totally enjoyed its freshness!
Check it out!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
this book is well worth it., June 16, 2004
Joseph knows how to create a macabre world with something that wasn't exactly deemed to be macabre. He gave the middle finger to those kind of vampires a long time ago when he wrote of this one, I read a few of his other stories so I know what I am getting into when I bought this book. Armstead is a writer that knows his horror and knows his influences -- the strongest one can see with his work here is H.P. Lovecraft.
He, like Lovecraft created a word world that no other writer but Armstead can touch, and if those of you who are out there in the HWA, pay attention because Joseph handed their asses to them with this book so far. I once joked to him about the idea of trading characters for each others stories; and what I say of him as a horror writer he says of me as well -- someone with a lot of skill and doesn't buy into the trends. Joe penned a classic, like it or not, Armstead is going to be around for years to come.
This book is more than a horror novel and more than a vampire novel, it reads more like a crime novel. Joseph Armstead has a real idea of how to write a vampire and do it in a way that will be enduring. I finally completed this book a few days ago and Armstead has a feel for his characters on this. If you are tired of Louise and Lestat (or just don't give a damn for them,) you might want to give the Moon-Chosen a chance.
Horror this muscular should be a must have for those who read Stephen King or Michael Crichton. I really can see this book becoming a movie if in the right hands. The Moon-Chosen vampire is a nasty one, they could easy put a hurt on anything that that was out there before. The gothic sensibilities are there with the story but this one is something that goes without classification, this has a lot of action behind it and a lot of supense.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Eerie and trend-setting Vampire Crime Fiction!, December 3, 2003
DARKNESS FEARS is a big scary violent rollercoaster ride into the Unknown! Author Joseph Armstead's wierd technological/mythological vampires, The Moon-Chosen, are deadly and elegant{ly} sexy villains weaving dangerous conspiracies in his fictional twin cities by the sea, New Barrington and West Sussex. Behavioral Criminologist and re-animated murder victim Professor Patricia Silver is a wonderful character, part "Profiler" and part nightmarish avenging angel, a woman torn by her need to punish the occult evil rampant in the twin cities and her need to try to fit into society's fringes as a walking ghost. DARKNESS FEARS is the PERFECT novel for horror readers who are tired of the same old Goth-pretensions, homo-erotic poseurs, and the splatterpunk "goon"-rock slaughterfests! This is an intelligent and creepy read with moments of explosive action and adventure! This is a really visual, visceral exciting horror novel and I would LOVE to see more in this series!
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