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 Nocturnes - John Connolly
Newest Review: ... are about ( because I believe to do so would give too much away about what to expect and lessen the enjoym,ent others might ... more  ... get from this collection) but needless to say they offer contemporary examples of the vampires, demons and Lovecraftian horrors that come straight out of the pages of one of those Tales From The Crypt comics you might have seen when you were a kid. Actually none of them are really that bad and some of the stories are genuinely chilling, the problem I have is the same I have with any short story and that is that each of the tales is over before it's really begun....
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Nocturnes - John Connolly: Nocturnes- tales of terror that are just a little to bite-si ... (553 words)
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Being a big fan of CONNOLLY and this being the only one of his books I had not read, I recently saw this second-hand and thought I'd give it a go. Written between the novels THE WHITE ROAD and THE BLACK ANGEL, the book is a collection of spine-chilling tales framed by a pair of novellas- the first about a typhoid-mary cowboy who spreads foul disease wherever he goes, the second about a haunted house featuring fan favourite, Charlie Parker. The rest of the stories are a macabre collection that bear much resemblence to the short-story writing of the late Richard Laymon crossed with a modern-day M.R.James. I'm not going to go into too much details about what each ... Read the complete review
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