Hallahan (197.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:00:44 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40147311 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Hellbound Hearts: Horror Anthologies of the 1980s.Orphans by Ed Naha (1989): Me, Mom, and Daddy!.Hearts Full of Hell: Horror Anthologies of the 198.Headhunter by Michael Slade (1984): I Guarantee Yo.Two from Fred Saberhagen's Dracula Sequence.Dennis Etchison Born Today, 1943, and More!.Headhunter is pretty cool indeed but be prepared for some iffy acrobatics as Slade tries to keep you guessing to the very. Slade has continued in cult popularity, still writing, still publishing gruesome crime thrillers, and I remember seeing lots of his books around back in the day ( Ghoul from 1987 seems to be a particular favorite of horror fans). Characterization is rich in some places and quite thin in others, and that narrative that skips about had me flipping back through pages, trying to remember someone's name or some plot point I might've only skimmed. But the scale, the twists, the complexity started to wear on me. I didn't mind the textbook-like pages on voodooism, serial killer psychology, the cannibalism of Native American tribes, even the international drug trade (this is one of those novels that includes a bibliography). The cover of this Onyx paperback from '86 is creepy but not all that eye-catching, although I'd say the quote from the author of Psycho is apt.Īnyway, there was lots to like about Headhunter, it definitely brings the '80s horror goodies, but by about page 300 I was a bit exhausted. Confidential I suppose that's why Slade's books were generally found on the horror shelves. You won't find that in James Ellroy's works, when he upped the crime-horror ante with novels like The Black Dahlia and L.A. But Slade definitely goes for a supernatural mood in several scenes despite writing a an otherwise completely realistic, if overheated, thriller. Slade's novel is a melange of behind-the-scenes police procedural, horror fiction tropes like decapitation and voodoo ceremonies, and true-crime serial killer exposé.
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