The Bridge

by John Skipp and Craig Spector

Book Overview

When the great storm comes, the good life ends. And hell on Earth begins. For 100 years we've been tossing our toxic waste over our shoulders. No more. This morning, while we slept, something woke up.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553290274
• ISBN13: 9780553290271
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 401 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellant!

I have read a lot of horror, 90% of it has just been trashy stupid fun! Love horror! But this one...THIS one...was awesome! I'm a big believer in recycling and keeping our green earth clean and green. This book, alas, does have it's trashy moments (Pun intended) but it also has a couple of characters that we truly care about, and a wonderful underlying message. One of my favorite horror novels I've read, kept me turning pages, kept me cringing, and as someone else said, it was quite painful at times, but isn't that why we love horror!? Even though it's an older book, the message is even more important now. Recycle people!! Our planet is dying a slow death and when it dies, we die.

The demonic, apocalyptic sibling of "24"...

Like the finest work of Stephen King, Skipp and Spector establish a fine ensemble of characters and make us feel for them, knowing that any one of them could be the next to suffer a horrific demise. The characters are unaware that nothing will be the same after the events in the book, unaware that their world is slipping away... The book is disturbing, gruesome and impossible to put down. Once this book's tendrils ensnare you, God help you if you have other things that need to get done. "The Bridge", arguably Skipp and Spector's finest work as a team, is a modern classic, proving them to be more than mere "splatterpunks." With this book, they cemented a place for themselves amongst horror's elite.

The Bridge: A Horror Story by John Skipp, Craig Spector

*Simply put, The Bridge is one of the finest horror novels I've ever read. If you enjoy your horror on an epic, apocalyptic scale, then this is one book that is sure to delight. There are only a handful of books in this genre that deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as The Bridge: The Stand by S. King, Phantoms by D. Koontz, Swan Song and They Thirst both by R. McCammon, Deus-X by J. Citro, Imajica by C. Barker (although some might argue that this title is better classified as fantasy). However, make no mistake, The Bridge is an altogether unique effort. I refuse to give any particular plot points away. In brief, The Bridge deals w/ the ultimate ecological nightmare scenario. It is absolutely riveting and features and ending that creeped me out for days-weeks-months! (Heck, I read this book over a decade ago and IT STILL CREEPS ME OUT!!)If you a remember a rather [bad] horror movie from 1979 called Prophecy w/ Talia Shire(not to be confused with The 1995 film The Prophecy starring Chris Walken) that dealt with the monstrous consequences of man's reckless polluting of the environment and suspected that there was real potential for a truly great story embedded deep within that cheesy...film, then this book confirms those suspicions!I truly believe that if adapted for the screen by the right filmmaker - Kubrick would have been my ideal choice, - it could potentially scare today's jaded and desensitized audiences on a level heretofore reached only by the likes of The Exorcist.To take any stock in Robert P. Beveridge's bone-to-pick review of this fine book (which unfortunatlely occupies the pole-position in the reviews for this book) would be an enormous misatake on your part. Trust me! If you're looking for THE wild ride, then this is it. Mr. Beveridge claims that this is not the case, stating that The Bridge is "...so much less fun than Skipp and Spector's first five wild rides." Nonsense! Mr. Beveridge simply appears to be an unfortunate gent whose intellectual capacity causes him to take himself way too seriously. Lighten up, bro! There are few books that I would go through the effort of bashing a reviewer who had in turn bashed it . This is one of those books. I simply don't want to see any of you folks miss out on one helluva good read because of someone's scathingly negative over-analytic review of a true horror classic.Peace.

Devastating, painful, and brilliant

Nature evolves according to its environment and the changes in its ecosystem. Poison it too much, and it will compensate in the most horrific way possible.This book was very painful to read, like watching a train speed off its tracks into a playground full of children. Relentless and unforgiving, its plot held me captive from start to finish, unable to put it down no matter how much I wanted to.This is not a book you will read over and over again, but it is a book you should read at least once.

Simply the greatest horror I've ever read!

This is far and away the greatest horror I have read. Nailed clean in the style that Skipp and Spector mastered so well, a craftily ironic tone that your own mind uses in its more honest moments, this constantly claustrophobicly narrowing vision of the environmental haulocaust to come grabs you by the short and curlies demands that you should SIT RIGHT BACK and hear of the coming tribulation. The deftness which with it was handled, the delecate suspension of disbelief holds even with the fantastic swirling and gelling. They were the best horror going in the '80s and early '90s, no debate and bar none. I miss them all the time, and boys and girls, this is as good as it got. Maybe the best it could get.

Awesome Ride to the end of OUR World

An Absolute MUST-READ, this one grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until it has shredded your sensibilities and made you think twice about even turning on the water faucet. With characters you care about, Bad and Good, and an inexorable march to destruction that seems to have No savior...heroes still emerge and save what they can in a hopeless situation. The writing is excellent with details that are vivid but never diving into gore overdrive.....well, maybe a little but what the hell. These guys bring the goods and not only do they not "pull any punches"...they punch through your skull and rip out your cerebral cortex.......If you find it .....BUY IT......