Creed

by James Herbert

Book Overview

Remember with fear . . .Sometimes horror is in the mind. And sometimes it's real. Telling the difference isn't always easy. It wasn't for Joe Creed. He'd just photographed the unreal. Now he had to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0450547434
• ISBN13: 9780450547430
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: New English Library
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.0" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

Comedy mystery horror thriller

Herbert tackles a lot of genre's with Creed. He combines his usualy horror and thrillers styles with some black comedy (which is really funny) and overall I thought that it worked well. Joe Creed, our anti-hero, is a paparazzo. We are told right from the start that he is selfish and basically not a good person, but he is our protagonist nonetheless. When in a graveyard, spying on the grave of a recently burried actress, hoping to catch a crazed greiving relative or similar, Creed takes a picture of a creepy man performing sinister acts on the grave. This simple act leads him into spiriling horror as the man is one of a group of demons who have a joke to play on him...and it's not funny...it's deadly... Lots of suspenceful, with both comical scenes and frightening scenes throw in for good measure. I gave this a 4 star rating because there were a few parts I thought dragged a bit (3 stars) but also parts of sheer brilliant that had me unable to put the book down (5 stars). Deffinatly worth a read if you are a James Herbert fan. Nobody has given this a negative review.

The main character's surname as book title...again???

However...an interesting and original idea, written in typical Herbert style. I enjoyed reading it but once I got to a certain point in the book, I sensed deja vu. There was definately a similarity with one of his other books, which I won't name so I don't give away any endings. However still a stimulating read with potential to scare. :)

respectable horror novel

I thought this was fairly good, it had some funny parts and chilly horror bits as well. I liked the plot, about a paparazzi photographer who accidently takes a demon's picture at a funeral. Somewhat cheesy but fun horror story.

Discovering Demons

Remember the movie The Omen where David Warner's character, a photographer, starts to find strange images in the photographs he takes of people? Well Creed is one big book about that as paparazzo Joe Creed, a character of the Princess Diana chasing type, finds himself photographing an important figure doing something over a coffin after a funeral which results in various forces coming after him to get the negatives. Creed then begins to unravel a world where monsters and demons exist and are aided by the rich and famous who he makes his living from. It makes for an original piece of reading, although not exactly hollywood material, comes across as very frightening most of the time and for that does exactly what it says on the label. Well worth discovering Herbert through this book and his other good one, Fluke.