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Title: Hexes by Tom Piccirilli ISBN: 0-8439-4483-8 Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (68 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent dark fantasy
Comment: Leave it to somebody named "Butts" to get it all backwards. Hexes is a solid read full of intricate storytelling prowess and a wonderful use of language. This isn't just another horror novel filled with gratuitous gore and simplistic writing, this is a tale that tries to cross genres and bring something new to readers. I appreciated Mr. Piccirilli's efforts and loved his use of symbolism and bittersweet back story that adds a whole new poignancy to the novel. Flashbacks to a bitter and haunting childhood--hence the repeated "Debbi is dead" references--show how an emotionally distraught protagonist fearing for his life and soul can still rise to be a hero. A real winner. A+
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredibly powerful occult horror
Comment: A friend of mine recommended this book to me and I'm glad she did. HEXES is one of my new all-time favorite books. This is a top-notch horror novel that will claw its way under your skin. There are some wonderfully chilling scenes in here, but there's also a light, playful air about much of the story as well. There's a real sense of poetry here as certain scenes just sing off the page. There are many funny characters stuck in strange situations, and there's one of the most memorable dogs in horror fiction this side of Dean Koontz's Einstein from Watchers. An odd mixture of thrills, chills, and tongue in cheek satire. I can't wait to also read A Lower Deep, The Night Class, and A Choir of Ill Children, which has one of the most amazing titles I've ever seen.
Rating: 3
Summary: storytelling is hexed
Comment: First the good news-- Piccirilli has a unique writing style that gives an otherworldly feel to the events unfolding in the novel, a mixture of matter-of-factness mixed with a skewed view of reality that evokes a combination of vintage Bradbury and Ramsey Campbell. On the negative side, both the story and the characters are somewhat unfocused, the writer assumes the reader has a fair amount of knowledge about magick (which, I believe, he writes as *magik*), and the ending degenerates into the usual bloody massacre in which numerous characters meet an ugly death. In short, he has an intriguing writing style which, once I warmed up to it, I really liked. Too bad the story fell short of expectations.
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Title: The Deceased by Tom Piccirilli ISBN: 0843947527 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 14 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Lower Deep by Tom Piccirilli ISBN: 084394921X Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli ISBN: 0843951257 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Halloween Man by Douglas Clegg ISBN: 0843944390 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Darkness Demands by Simon Clark ISBN: 0843948981 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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