Horror novel reviews
Terror as a literary space is marked with that infumable subgenre band, halfway between the fantastic, science fiction and crime novels. And it will not be that the matter is irrelevant. Because in many aspects the History of the human being is the history of their fears. ...
In certain writers you never know where reality ends and legend begins. Edgar Allan Poe is the quintessential cursed writer. Cursed not in the current snobbish sense of the term but rather in a deep meaning of his soul ruled by hells through alcohol and ...
The horror genre is usually a watering hole for writers of all kinds of satellite genres who from time to time immerse themselves in this narrative of hells and darkness materialized between us. So cases like those of the British CJ Tudor or the American JD Barker (abbreviations like ...
Anne Rice was a singular writer, repeatedly world bestseller but always subject to emotional ups and downs associated with her spirituality and with a notorious repercussion of that transcendental search on part of her work. Because in his busy life, with different stages inside and outside of religion, Rice left ...
Bram Stoker can be considered to be the father of the vampire genre. But the truth is that his transmutation of the already existing Count Dracula as the origin of his masterpiece distorts that authorship. In the end, it can then be thought that it was Dracula himself who indirectly used Stoker to ...
It was the 90s and on Sunday morning the zombies of the afternoons strangely coexisted with the early risers of the first mass. And nothing happened, each one continued on their way as if they could not see each other (perhaps because religious people do not have brains with ...
What better slightly pretentious title than this? Before you die, yes, just a few hours before listening to it, you will pick up your list of essential books and cross out the best seller by Belén Esteban that closes the reading circle of your life… (it was a joke, a macabre and bloody joke) It is not for less…
The thing of packing four short novels under the same creative umbrella already goes from old in a Stephen King that in the absence of more stories with which to cover his time gained to the fourth dimension or the devil himself, he manages as best he can with his overwhelmed imagination. I say what ...
Today's horror genre finds its most efficient preacher in JD Barker. Because under the first appearance of black genre, we end up discovering in the trilogy that closes with this sixth trap a volume made an investigative thriller in which the investigated is the devil himself. Because …
For a long time Maxime Chattam had been giving a good account of his narrative capacity in a dark literature that epitomized the paranomal and the thriller. And as the thriller was given more prominence, it was also drawing more and more the attention of so many readers who find in it ...
Back in 1971 this original novel came out. A story of psychological terror that can be considered a reference for all those great authors and their great works of this genre that were lavished back in the 80's with Stephen King to the head. It is not that terror as a literary argument ...
There are novels whose title and even their cover remind me of what those of us who visited the video stores of the 80s found in search of an action movie. At times it seemed that the covers and titles had to synthesize everything in an image and a simple title but ...