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Title: Suffer the Children by John Saul ISBN: 0-440-18293-X Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 July, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A chilling, truly disturbing horror classic
Comment: While John Saul is not held in the highest of regard by many horror fans, he is the man who first introduced me to the genre. Some of his later novels did indeed become pretty repetitive, but his first novel, Suffer the Children, is a dead-on, unflinching classic. This was the first truly scary book I ever read; I was probably around twelve at the time, and I remember staying up into the wee hours of the morning to finish it and then finding it almost impossible to get to sleep. Reading it again now, it still possesses much of the power it possessed years ago. It is a tale of a family curse, murder, schizophrenia, general unhappiness, and gruesome, frightening events. Long ago, the scion of the Conger family killed his daughter, supposedly bringing a curse down upon the succeeding generations of his family. Now, Jack Conger fears the curse is real. In a drunken rage, he physically assaults his youngest little girl Sarah. While he struggles to remember what exactly happened that day and grows increasingly estranged from his long-suffering wife, his daughter exists in a quasi-comatose state, living in her own silent fantasy world. The Congers look at their first daughter as a true blessing through all of their pain--Elizabeth is mature beyond her years and takes care of her little sister with great love and kindness. When several local children begin to disappear, though, the Congers' delicately balanced world finally turns completely upside down.
This is a pretty scary novel, largely because the horror centers around the two young sisters Elizabeth and Sarah. The description of the gloomy woods around the home and the truly dangerous embankment nearby help produce a great dark atmosphere, but Saul's description of a series of horrible events is especially unsettling. The story gets pretty gruesome at one point, and I think some horror writers would not be bold enough to go as far as Saul did. Saul committed himself fully to this novel and dared to describe everything in great detail; combine that with his incredibly effective characterization of the two sisters and you get a true horror classic in every sense of the word. Saul hooks you securely in his clutches and drags you down with him into the pits of depravity. The ending did not provide me with a complete feeling of closure, but I certainly have no quarrel with it; in fact, the evil Saul so vividly describes almost defies comprehension and thus necessitates the type of ending Saul chose to give us. I would highly recommend this novel to any horror fan--Saul creates a psychological atmosphere of real terror that essentially oozes out of the pores of each page.
Rating: 4
Summary: What happens in the past can haunt you in the present...
Comment: The Congers were once the richest and most influential family in a small town until the worst happened. A little girl is dead and a man has gone crazy...
One hundred year later, the Congers are not as rich and are plagued by a century old curse. An old painting of an unkown little girl is unsurfaced and then the children start disappearing...
This story is truly frightening. The details of certain scenes are graphic and startling and the plot twists in directions that are surprising. The ending didn't leave me satisfied and brought up more questions then it did answers...
Rating: 5
Summary: Creepy!!!
Comment: This was a fantastic, well-written book. I couldn't quit thinking about it after I read it. Even though, as some reviewers have stated, it does leave things somewhat unresolved, it stills tells a terrific horror story. Then ending is just a classic Saul ending.
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Title: Punish the Sinners by John Saul ISBN: 0440170842 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: When the Wind Blows by John Saul ISBN: 0440194903 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cry for the Strangers by John Saul ISBN: 0440118700 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 July, 1986 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Comes the Blind Fury by John Saul ISBN: 0440114756 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Unwanted by John Saul ISBN: 0553266578 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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