The Night Stalker

by Jeff Rice

Book Overview

Kolchak the Night Stalker He's BACK This is the on that started it all The inspiration behind the "X-Files" TV's first paranormal investigator, reporter Carl Kolchak, is drawn into a series of unusual... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671783432
• ISBN13: 9780671783433
• Release Date: November 1973
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Super Reader

A pretty strange history to this one. A novel submitted to a dodgy Hollywood type who takes it and makes a tv show out of if, and eventually the guy who wrote the original book ends up writing the novelisation of the tv movie based on that! Anyway, you know the story, scruffy but resourceful reporter realises something very strange is going on when he investigates some killings that lead him to discover a vampire.

Quentin

Loved the TV movie so thought it would be fun to read the novel it's based on. Wow, what an ingenious and believable story! Couldn't put it down so stayed up all night to finish it. Now I'll have to get a copy of Rice's The Night Strangler for more fun. Jeff Rice has written by far the best vampire story of the 20th century. The Night Stalker (original title, The Kolchak Tapes) wipes the floor with Anne Rice's murky stuff. If you don't believe me ask Richard Matheson! Of course seeing the movie first I had my own image of Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) and Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland) but that only enhanced my enjoyment of this book. I like the way the author weaves his own life into the story. Sometimes I get a strong feeling he is Kolchak and that pursuing this story has damaged his career and life! Superb writing, I wish Rice had more novels available. And sad to hear Darren McGavin died last week...