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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Mar 6, 2009 18:14:51 GMT
Judy Gardiner - The Quick And The Dead (1981)Recieved it this morning, here's the cover: The "as serialised in good housekeeping", doesn't seem to bode too well for it being a nasty, but we shall see. As I've not finished Ghoul by Brian Keene yet, it may be a while before I get to this one, but at 144 pages, it should be a quick read.
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Post by bluetomb on Dec 2, 2014 10:46:34 GMT
Not so impressed by this. The set up, young widow recieves the time slipped former occupants of her picturesque new cottage, wtih side characters of a boozy vicar (never much cut out for it to begin with) and a nice young council worker with a depressed pot smoking wife, is rife with potential for horror, or mystery or comedy or even romance, but until the final chapter or so it just doesn't really go anywhere or do anything. Interesting points are brought up several times but not developed and the characters and their different stories never do much to intersect or meaningfully reflect each other. Still, it's well written stuff, well evoked countryside atmosphere, the central Eleanor Millard is sensitively drawn and the climax is reasonably chilling. May be of some interest on a slow afternoon but not something to rush to hunt out.
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