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Post by dem on Oct 24, 2011 7:37:51 GMT
Anthony Horowitz - Groosham Grange (Walker, 2003: originally 1988)  Phil SchrammBlurb: New pupils are made to sign their names in blood... The assistant headmaster has no reflection... The French teacher disappears whenever there's a full moon... Groosham Grange, David Eliot's new school, is a very weird place indeed!Anthony Horowitz - Return To Groosham Grange (Walker, 2003)  Phil SchrammBlurb: A year ago, David Eliot would have been happy to escape from his weird school and its ghoulish teachers. Now he's fighting for its survival. Someone is trying to get their hands on the Unholy Grail, the source of all power, and unless David, can stop them, Groosham Grange will be history!Read the first book many moons ago, can't say it did much for me at the time which is probably why i left Anthony Horowitz alone 'til recently. Could be that Groosham Grange is aimed at a younger YA audience than the frequently terrific and sometimes downright nasty Horowitz Horrors, many of which would not be out of place in Mary Danby's much loved Frighteners, but seeing as i've a mental age of about two, that shouldn't have been an obstacle. A top time with the aforementioned Horrors, and the fact he scripted six early episodes of Midsomer Murders (including strong Sport is Horror! contender Dead Man's Eleven) goes in his favour, so will give at least one of 'em a proper seeing to in the fullness of time. The quote from The Times at back of Return ... is surely the biggest compliment Horowitz will receive in his phenomenally successful career. "Horowitz has become a writer who converts boys to reading."
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Post by dem on Oct 11, 2013 7:33:26 GMT
Been raving about the three Horowitz Horrors collections everr since Lemmy put me onto them, but could never find copies in my usual haunts. Finally, on recent West End jaunt with the venerable mr. pulphack, success; nabbed an as-new More Bloody Horowitz in Any Amount of Books. Was down that way again yesterday - would lightening strike twice? Answer, 'no', at least, not in AAB, but luckily, as it turned out, my business was in Baker Street, and cutting through Marleybone High Street, found an Oxfam bookshop at no 91. Yesterday, there was very little by way of horror for rotten grown ups - should you visit, you'll need to consult the 'Science Fiction' section - but screaming my name from the well-stocked YA shelves .... Anthony Horowitz - Horowitz Horror: Volume 1 (Orchard, 2008)  Jerry Paris
Killer Camera
Light Moves
The Night Bus
Harriet’s Horrible Dream
Scared
A Career in Computer Games
The Man with the Yellow Face
The Monkey’s EarBlurb Enter the strange and twisted world of Anthony Horowitz - if you dare!
It's a world where everything seems normal, but the weird, the sinister and the truly terrifying are lurking just out of sight.
Like an ordinary camera ... with evil powers; a bus ride home that turns into your worst nightmare; and a mysterious computer game that nobody would play, if they knew the rules.
Each story has a shocking sting in its tale...
Horowitz Horrors is a wicked collection of macabre tales by acclaimed and best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. And look out for the companion collection, Horowitz Horrors Volume 2Two down, one to go .... |
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Post by dem on May 12, 2014 10:39:26 GMT
Anthony Horowitz - Horowitz Horror 2 (Orchard, 2008) Found this in the library this morning. Companion volume to the above, originally published as More Horowitz Horror (see over page). Still think its his finest collection to date, Twist Cottage and The Hitch-Hiker are especially recommended.
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Post by ripper on Sept 21, 2015 9:07:25 GMT
Pleased to say that I picked up 'More Horowitz Horror' from my local library on saturday and am working my way through it, not in order as is my want.
The Hitchhiker: A good tale to start the collection. A twist that I didn't see coming, though it is hardly original.
Burnt: Nasty. A bit more grue and it could have been a Pan. I felt rather sorry for Nigel. The teasing he suffered over his paleness seems to have driven him to an obsession for a tan, no matter what the danger.
Flight 715: This didn't end as I had hoped and expected. Not a bad story but rather tame after 'Burnt.'
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Post by ripper on Sept 22, 2015 9:57:02 GMT
A couple more from 'More Horowitz Horror.'
Howard's End: Not really my cup of tea. Hell just seemed to be a tedious place. Not scary at all, I'm afraid.
The Lift: Better, this one. What starts as the mystery of a boy disappearing from a lift at Covent Garden station ends on a note of horror. Having said that, it was still fairly restrained stuff. Enjoyable but unremarkable, and not up there with 'Burnt.'
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Post by ripper on Sept 23, 2015 9:22:25 GMT
The Phone went Dead: Creepy little tale that I can imagine had the younger readers nervously answering their mobiles after reading this one. I wonder how Eric got David's number, as his mobile had a new simm card.
Twiss Cottage: A longer story with a satisfyingly nasty pay-off for Ben's horrid stepmother. I thought perhaps Horowitz went a bit too far in explaining everything at the end, but maybe thought younger readers might miss the clues that Ben's dad wasn't exactly unaware of the nature of the cottage, though I am not sure that is a valid point. One of the standout stories in this collection imo.
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