Craig Spector

In his own version of "The Territories," Craig Spector does an excellent job moving back and forth between two similar but very different personal lives.

I was never taken out of the story because Mr. Spector knew what he was doing to keep his audience locked, loaded and engaged with the ever-changing worlds of Eric Best and Matt Black.

The author leaves us with some really valuable advice:

If you don't like your life story, rewrite it.

Control your fate; look for and grab onto your destiny, show more people.

Cover illustration by Peter Maihaichuk -- love that sepia-toned art and film strip frame. show less

The usual number of passengers were on board, doing their midnight ride; atrocity tends to attract as many people as it scares away.

Every vampire story is about the horror of real estate and wanting to dominate the market by converting people into your slaves, it's a good shortcut if you can pull it off. Anyhow, this book with one and a half dimentional characters and pretty decent action and gore sequences makes for a pretty fun read. It would be an excellent movie, though.

This was one of the many (many, many) vampire novels referenced in Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula series. The main vamp from The Light at the End makes an appearance in Johnny Alucard. When I looked up the reference, I thought the book sounded interesting, so I checked it out. Glad I did! The story contains some not-so-PC words and attitudes, but I won’t judge it by 2017 standards when it was published in 1986. I’m sure I could find a lot of other books from that era and earlier with show more similar issues :(. And aside from that, I didn’t have any complaints about this book. It was a fun, fast read featuring an old-school, nasty, scary vampire and a straight-forward good-vs.-evil plot-line that I found very satisfying. It’s not for the faint of heart, though. Definitely a gory horror novel intended for adults! show less

Awesome novel!! I very much enjoyed it. One of my most favorite in a while. It starts out with a variation of a well-worn cliché; but it's a familiar cliché. One that grabs you from the start and pulls you into the story. From that moment on, you follow Syd, the protagonist, as his life goes through very rapid changes and becomes more than human. As you enter part two, the novel takes a different turn which will make you wonder where the story is going. But then it all comes together and show more you look back and it's only obvious that the story was heading this way. Everything ties up at the end very well. Overall an extremely gripping novel that excites and gets the pulse pounding. The last 100 pages went by in what seemed a blink of the eye. Highly recommended! show less