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Post by andydecker on Jan 16, 2022 13:08:12 GMT
Shaun Hutson - Erebus (Star Books, 1984, 320 pages, this edition 1988)
In 1984 Hutson published 4 novels under at least three different pen-names. There was the (in)famous Chainsaw Terror by Nick Blake and The Uninvited 2: the Visitation by Frank Taylor. And another of the Sledgehammer war novels, Men of Blood, which was first published by Robert Hale with the Hutson name on the cover - like all of his war novels by hale, only the paperback edition by Star a year later used the name Wolf Kruger, probably to not dilute the brandname. |
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Post by dem bones on Jan 16, 2022 14:12:12 GMT
Hard to believe we overlooked this one. It's one I 'liked,' albeit not quite so fondly as Slugs and Breeding Ground. Is it the one with the "mouthful of maggot" interlude? Shaun Hutson - Erebus (Star, 1984) Blurb: The people of Wakely are pale and gaunt. They have abnormally long fingernails and prominent teeth - and some of them have hair on the palms of their hands. Their animals are ugly and vicious, their offspring are born mutant. Mares eat their newborn foals, bullocks rampage in the slaughterhouse - and kill their would-be butchers.
What is poisoning the life-blood of Wakely town?
What evil force has it in thrall?
READ EREBUS
AND NEVER EAT RED MEAT AGAIN... |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 16, 2022 14:20:34 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jan 16, 2022 14:27:10 GMT
Will post most of the rest of Mr. Hutson's oeuvre in the future, the books I have until I switched over to digital. It will be fun even if I have forgotten most of the content or didn't read them in a few cases. I still buy his new books, but more out of habit and nostalgia than interest. And today's awful "cover artwork" doesn't merit the print editions for me any longer.
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Post by bluetomb on Mar 5, 2022 21:59:56 GMT
I seem to recall an interview with Hutson in which he noted that one of the heads of the agency which represented him early on and one of the directors of WH Allen were one and the same man, and so he did not have difficulty getting published for some time during the 80's. I don't mean this as a snipe though, even in these internet, anyone just a few clicks away from watching Guinea Pig : Flower of Flesh and Blood or rather worse days, early Hutson is some formidable gory shock stuff. And those Star covers are things of beauty. Perfectly captured the spirit of the books, and the content lived up to them.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 6, 2022 14:59:54 GMT
I seem to recall an interview with Hutson in which he noted that one of the heads of the agency which represented him early on and one of the directors of WH Allen were one and the same man, and so he did not have difficulty getting published for some time during the 80's. I don't mean this as a snipe though, even in these internet, anyone just a few clicks away from watching Guinea Pig : Flower of Flesh and Blood or rather worse days, early Hutson is some formidable gory shock stuff. And those Star covers are things of beauty. Perfectly captured the spirit of the books, and the content lived up to them. In the early books up to 1988 he always thanked Bob Tanner. One has to say that Hutson's Acknowledgment pages are kind of interesting. He still has a thank you for his family and for Iron Maiden. After all those years. It is kind of nice. |
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Post by bluetomb on Mar 6, 2022 16:23:09 GMT
Even though I don't love reading him these days as much as I used to, it's very pleasing that he stayed an old school, heavy metal and family loving sort. I imagine for some all the years working and degree of success can be distancing.
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