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Title: Incubus by Ann Arensberg ISBN: 0-345-43816-7 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.48 (42 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A horror novel that is literary
Comment: In 1974, a severe drought and heat wave hits only Dry Falls, Maine while the surrounding area is much cooler and wetter. The male residents have lost so much of their sex drive that even Viagra could not help. There is also a marked increase in deformed births among local livestock.
The local Episcopal priest Dr. Henry Lieber has felt his faith in God deteriorating even as he records every odd event to strike the town. Henry believes that a supernatural being is destroying his town. His skeptical spouse Cora worries about her husband's well-being. However, she becomes converted and begins to wonder if a demon is raping the women of her town.
The story line of INCUBUS is fast-paced, well researched, and cleverly developed (through the eyes of Cora), leaving readers awestruck by the immense talent of Ann Arensberg. The characters feel so real and the town they inhabit seems like any small New England community. With this winner and her two previous terrific tales (see SISTER WOLF and GROUP SEX), Ms Arensberg has quickly donned mantles worn by the Kings and Deans of the genre.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5
Summary: A well crafted novel, not a "horror" book
Comment: As opposed to the reviews given to a book I bought at the same time ("Wither" by Passarella)which claim that book as a "masterpiece" (and I think the average reviewer must be 16 years old), this book comes poorly reviewed in its wake.
This, from the very first lines is an anguish inducing, very haunting novel. Its only problem (in the eyes of the readers, I think) is that it lacks blood and gore and though it has an erotic undercurrent it also lacks sex, which is what most people associate with horror.
Cora's pilgrimage (so to speak) is actually a horrifying experience. Her life will NEVER be the same and that is what horror stands for: the utter, abrupt and irreversible change in our lives against our wills is what we fear the most. Ms. Arensberg creates a palpably (if slow-paced) atmospheric story, that uncoils in utter horror.
Nowadays a "good" horror novel must deal with vampires and/or killers, with lots of gore and smut... this on the other hand is a novel, and it is a supernatural horror odyssey too well crafted. Pity for those who couldn't get the point at all. It's like never knowing the difference between champagne and cheap fizz.
Rating: 3
Summary: Too mundane for horror genre
Comment: Cora's endless details of her mundane life drag this story down. The interesting scenes are buried in and amongst the chit-chatty monologues about her mother's garden, (...), her cooking, and the weather.
I tried my best to get into this book but after 200 hundred pages, the horror bits were just too far and few between. There was too much local gossip. I think the author was trying to write in the style of Lovecraft but she kept getting bogged down in too much detail.
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Title: The Painted Bird by Jerzy N. Kosinski ISBN: 080213422X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, John Collier, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates ISBN: 0312862172 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Hannibal by Thomas Harris ISBN: 0440224675 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 23 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Bram Stoker, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson ISBN: 0451523636 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1982 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Pressure Points by Larry Brooks ISBN: 0451410017 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 29 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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