Fear

by R. Patrick Gates

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451401018
• ISBN13: 9780451401014
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Onyx Books
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A new dimension to FEAR

I think Patrick Gates is one of the best horrorwriters of alltime (he once got labelled the next Stephen King, to give you an indication). This book isn't his best (For that read 'Grimm Memorials' and 'Jumpers') but it's scary, and engaging in it's own right. A magazine once said Gates' books are the literary equivelant of a Freddy Krueger movie. Although that description doesn't do him enough justice I think it's also partly true. It are his amazing setpieces and images that have a way of staying with you, more so than the overall plot, which can be called thin: 'Fear' is a tour de force horror/ gore novel about an alien being which posseses people's minds and makes them commit heinous murders and atrocities. In the best horror/ b-movie tradition only a few people are left alive to defeat the monster. To give you an idea off those 'setpieces' I mentioned. Near the end Gates dishes up a roaring mass of nasties and beasties for the main antagonists to fight. An old women with a chainsaw and even the monster from that movie ALIEN are included there!I won't spoil the ending but it's original and can even be called intellectual.YOU'LL HAVE TO READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT.I have a few more words for the writer though. What ever happened to you after 'Jumpers'? I'd love to have some more of your work to read! Drop a line!