The Dark

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Good ole post-classic horror where the gothic take on ghosts and the paranormal has been switched with skepticism and a more scientific perspective.

The Dark (Herbert novel) - Wikipedia

He was an author who did seemed to be able to reinvent himself and his style and still stay quintessentially British. The lunatic hunts him down to the island and she turns out to be malevolent nut who worships the moon. That was kind of a relief for me, because I’ve read a few dud Herberts in a row, and so it was nice to feel as though a little bit of the magic was back. For those used to his writing style this will feel like putting on a comfortable pair of old slippers. I can't in good faith recommend this title although I will say this review does make it sound like the problems present are much worse than the reality of it.This book also had a lot of clumsy exposition designed as dialogue, in the mouths of some very thinly drawn characters. Every time I went into the basement to get the chairs, I would have to scramble back up the stairs quickly to ensure that the darkened basement was not behind me for any longer than absolutely necessary. This was better than the last Herbert book I read - The Secret of Crickley Hall - but it was not as good as his best stuff. Startingout with a terrific opening scene, armed with the original premise of evil as a tangible psychic force, the story takes the readers on a really dark (pun intended) scary journey. We got a couple of the usual mortifying toe-cringing detailed sexscene of the parts of the sex lives of humans which often aren't very sexy in all honesty (love it!

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And I was tired of corpse mutilation and over-detailed psychic visions of blood and guts by the second description.There was a card inside of it written to the last person who read it and clearly used as a bookmark. Poor old bastard spends the whole dammed novel getting strangled, thrown out windows and hurt in multiple other funny ways. It holds the interest – with some good horrifying descriptions – but I had the same problem with it that I have with a lot of Herbert’s work, namely that there’s not much humour in it. The idea in the book as good and evil being an energy force that can be controlled is an interesting one that raises many questions as you progress through the book. Note: The gender politics are odd, as this is firmly a book of it's time, but it never quite indulges the sexism that was prevalent in splatterpunk a few years later.

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to this, Herbert has granted the author full access to his photographic archives and provided unreleased material to publish in this book.Madness raged as the lights began to fade and humanity was attacked by an ancient, unstoppable evil. He was the subject of a This is Your Life programme in 1995, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at the London Dungeon. Now in the case of horror - its the fact the characters, places and events all remind me of the world around me (or at least of the 80s when I was growing up) rather than just another location a blockbuster story uses to destroy as a bit of time filler (come on we have all seen those movies who to make a point trash a European city or two). However the book did hit its mark with wonderfully gruesome and chilling scenes and kept to the fast pace I expect in thrillers. Overall though Herberts story and the peoples madness in the street around the house, the insane asylum, tower block and madness in the street as London is overwhelmed by the dark is excellent.

The Dark by James Herbert

He is very unlike Stephen King whose works are based on the human psyche and things that humans are capable of. This time, not only is he seeing what the murderer is doing, but the killer is aware of Childes, too. As I read on I got more into the tale as it unfolded and found it an enjoyable horror/thriller though it isn't Herbert at his best. As I sip this wine and battle the demons in my head that insist on believing my girlfriend is an enemy, I wrack my brain regarding this book and its required review.

The Dark is one of my favorite Herbert novels, and I think he set a record for introducing characters before they succumb to some sort of nasty foo.