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(book review) Graham Masterton´s Spirit is one of the less good works from one of my favorite authors.

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Graham Masterton is one of my favorite horror writers and his novels are full of suspense, gore, sex and fine storytelling. His works were already mentioned on the pages of this zine. Elisabeth, Laura and Peggy Buchanan are three sisters growing up together. One winter day, Peggy, youngest of the three, accidentally drowns in family pool. Stricken by grief, remaining two sisters build Peggy´s image from snow and her clothes. Then, strange things begin to happen and there is ice, blood and death…In this 1995 novel, Masterton tried to connect classic ghost story and legendary HC Andersen´s fairy tale Snow Queen. Based on a dreamy and imaginary premise, this horror story becomes too complicated in some parts, almost boring in some chapters towards the end of the book, and all gore and death scenes can not save the impression that this one did not quite sit with me when I read it. The characters are a bit plastic, some well written, some are fillers and there are couple of definitely better books of same author than this one. Average horror novel.

5/10

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(books) Andrew O´Neill – A history of heavy metal

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I know what most of you think when you see the title of this book and review. Oh no, not another heavy metal history book about this beloved genre of music and there were tons of them written before. No, this one is a keeper. Andrew O´Neill is metal and hardcore punk musician who did a comedy show called A History Of Heavy Metal about this music by fan for fans and done in humoristic, refreshing and also informative way. This book is an expanded edition of that show. There are chapters from literally heavy metal done by neanderthals to Black Sabbath, doom thrash, black metal, death metal, even plagues such as metalcore and nu metal. I caught myself laughing many times while reading this and I really enjoyed every second and page turning eager to see what is next. This is a crazy, hilarious and superb book for all metal fans, but those who are not into metal could read it to. But they will not understand it. Or maybe? There are anecdotes, facts and humor all in one place. A heartfelt recommendation for this one.

10/10

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(book) Dean Koontz´s Winter Moon is not his finest, but it is a decent suspense novel.

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Dean Koontz is probably one of the best known writers of suspense thriller/horror fiction out there and is also one of my personal favorites. I am eager to complete reading of his works, so this one somehow came first into my hands. Story of this novel is about a heroic cop Jack McGarvey who is badly wounded in a shootout with a maniac high on PCP at the gas station. Jack also loses his partner along with couple other civilians and barely escapes with his life.

Second storyline follows Eduardo Fernandez, an old man on his Quatermass(nice homage to Hammer horror) ranch where strange things happen in the woods of snowy Montana. As it goes McGarvey family moves to that ranch and starts fight for their very lives and sanity, but also whole humanity on that little corner of snowy nowhere.

Well, this one was tense, as we are used from Koontz, nice to read and a page turner, especially last ten chapters through which McGarveys struggle to stay alive fighting the enemy. But, the other storyline Koontz somehow started with followers, cult of late maniac director who bother McGarvey family somehow gets lost along the way. As I read this one, I somehow couldn´t escape the fact that Koontz kind of recycles himself and his novels such as Phantoms or Servants of the Twilight, but does not really know which way to take. This is a decent one, but not top of his works.

6/10