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Title: Brass by Robert J. Conley ISBN: 0-8439-4505-2 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Exciting, Unpretentious Horror Novel
Comment: Conley (winner of the Beginnings of Horror Award) uses an ancient Indian myth of Untsaiyi (Brass). Brass is a monster with metallic skin, one of the original beings who lived before humankind walked the earth. He is immortal and can change form at will (for example, into a grizzly bear, a bat or even a boa constrictor). Brass was captured thousands of years ago, spiked by a wooden post through his belly that secured him to the ocean floor, and watched over by two crows who perch on the top of the pole. But now the beach where he lies is under development, and Brass is unknowingly released. The novel follows Brass, and the subsequent carnage he creates, as four human hunters pursue him. And this isn't just a senseless monster on the rampage type story - every death that occurs happens for a reason, and to be honest, there were times I felt on the side of Brass.
Overall, this is an exciting, unpretentious horror novel, with well-developed characters (especially Judith Ann, the runaway 16-year-old who teams up with Brass) that readers of all ages should enjoy. Perhaps the only thing I question is the wooden pole that was used to trap Brass - why didn't it rot after so many years? Perhaps it can't?
Readers might be interested in the British horror writer Stephen Laws's 'The Wyrm' which has an ancient monster trapped by a gibbet through its body.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pulp, indeed!
Comment: Lovely, classless, 'B' movie, over-the-top pulp horror. In short, I loved it. Conley joins the ranks of gifted new authors such as Harry Shannon (Night of the Beast) who are trying desperetely to revitalize the horror genre by turning back the clock to the kinds of books we all used to know and love as kids. He deserves to be read, and I hope more books follow.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quick moving modern day Western-horror hybrid
Comment: Conley,a native American,is mostly known as a Western writer-and for my money,is a good one.In Brass he tackles the horror tale retaining the West as a setting and stirring into the mix the fashionable themes of ecology and Native American lore.
It opens in a small mid -Western town where a major environmentaL project,railroaded through Congrees by an opportunistic politician ,is about to get underway.This involves the draining of a fetid stretch of water and the reclaiming of the surrounding area for tourism and recreation.Project leader Joe Shelby is uneasy from Day one;buried in the middle of the water is a pole,guarded by two crows whose hostility towards the workers on the project is active and violent.Joe pulls out the pole.Big mistake .
The pole is impaling Brass or Untsayi,an ancient Native American demon,and shape shifter out for revenge and the satiation of his desires.
Cue much shape shifting --alligator,bear,human- as the good guys hunt him down but not before he mates with a teenage runway and wreaks havoc in Vegas prior to a lively climax where the heroes try to return him to the watery prison
Its slick and utterly unpretentious written with pace and elan.
I enjoyed it and veture to suggest devotees of pulp horror will have themselves a good time reading it too.
The best of Conley is to be found in the Westerns but this is good too
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Title: The Reckoning: A Novel by James Byron Huggins ISBN: 1565073673 Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: CAIN by James Byron Huggins ISBN: 067100378X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hunter by James Byron Huggins, Byron Huggins ISBN: 0684844613 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Sleeper by Steven Harriman ISBN: 0425188817 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: LEVIATHAN by James Byron Huggins ISBN: 0785277099 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 22 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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