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Post by ian on Sept 7, 2009 6:43:44 GMT
The Late Dean Koontz?
When did he die then?
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carl
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Post by carl on Aug 29, 2010 11:10:53 GMT
Bryan Smith: House of Blood was ridiculously bad.
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Post by erebus on Apr 10, 2011 12:03:16 GMT
Peter Tremayne. Gary Brandner are dull writers. But John Farris wrote the appalling Axeman Cometh. So he gets my vote.
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jun 17, 2011 14:35:27 GMT
Peter Tremayne. Gary Brandner are dull writers. But John Farris wrote the appalling Axeman Cometh. So he gets my vote. But...what about Minotaur? I loved that one.
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 18, 2011 15:14:46 GMT
I like quite a lot of Farris' stuff -- All Heads Turn, The Uninvited, The Fury etc, some others not so much, but he's by no means a bad writer.
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Post by erebus on Aug 6, 2011 15:55:24 GMT
Rex Miller is poor too. Although SLOB was great.
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Post by willerrickson on Apr 20, 2012 0:14:02 GMT
I think Farris has written some real stunners - ALL HEADS TURN and SON OF THE ENDLESS NIGHT I absolutely loved - but THE FURY was dull. Well-written, though, what I read of it. Masterton has had some stinkers, but usually they're fun reads, but I think THE MANITOU is one of the great pulp horror novels of the '70s.
I'm no Shaun Hutson fan at all. Richard Laymon's cult popularity confounds me; his novel THE CELLAR is one of the dumbest, most reductive, most insulting books I've ever read, and while RESURRECTION DREAMS had a cool concept, he's such a lame and weak writer he couldn't make his way through his not-terrible scenarios. Dean Koontz is the very definition of hack.
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