Read many times before, and probably enjoyed every time. Thus far you have an excellent, low-key version of a novel you've It'sĮasy to read, but not too slick or gross for the sake of grossness. Morris' prose captures this all very nicely. Nausea compete with the supernatural terror that works its way into Abusiveīullies, parents and kitchens that will make the reader gulp with Unpleasantness that is the boys' lives, as they and the readerĮxperience some of the seedier aspects of life with Toady. The illusions are matched part and parcel by the Morris is an expert at threading the horrific illusions into theīoys' lives. Result is an invasion of weirdness into their heretofore stable
The boys hold a séance inĪ house where killings performed with relish have occurred, and the Toady, the new kid in theĬlub, definitely comes from the wrong side of the tracks, and brings This is a more claustrophobic version than we usually get in theseĮxcursions and it's the better for it. The school isĬrueler, the weather is worse, and the neighborhoods crowd closer. Than the more halcyon American versions of boyhood. Kids with a darker, chillier, British edge. McCammon's, Simmons' and Bradbury's childhood odes to the outsider Morris captures the UK version of King's, The Horror Club sitsĪbout and discusses all the latest incarnations of popular horror in Outcasts add a new member to The Horror Club. 'Toady' starts as Richard, Robin and Nigel, the school's three Horror has to come in big packages, they should all be this good. Surprising at every juncture where it needs to be. Place is firm, and he knows how to take his brain out for a walk when Imaginative take on the classic "boys find real horror" scenario. Novel, while comprised of what may be regarded as the "typical"Įlements of mainstream horror, is a wonderfully executed and 'The Horror Club', it never received much notice. Public's thirst for horror had just crested. In the US, only Stephen King seems to be able to Novels have a stigma attached, as if they were something nasty that Instant bestseller status they once were accorded. Morris Judy Piatkus Publishers UK Hardcover ISBN 5-3 Publication Date: 09-28-1989 522 Pages Price: £13.99 Date Reviewed: 08-09-02 Reviewed by Rick Kleffel © 2002īig novels of supernatural horror are no longer guaranteed the Mark Morris Toady Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
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