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https://thebookloversboudoir.wordpres...This is my first time reading the author and I look forward to more of her work. Horror is one of my favourite genres. The alien films are among my favourite. I couldn’t resist this book when I read the premise. And I was not disappointed. The Ancient was a great read, tense, dark, atmospheric and scary as hell at times. I was hooked from the moment the drug runner dies and something starts to shift beneath his pooling blood. The setting on a ship is perfe...
Not much in the way of frights but plenty of stomach-churning grue. When you get right down to it the subplot makes this more of a suspense/thriller novel than a horror story.
Really enjoyed this, good characters, story moved at a good pace. Made me want to keep reading which is how I judge how much I rate it.
Another fun ride from Muriel Gray, shame she hasn't written anything lately, her horror stuff is very well written and always very original. This is about a nasty ancient Inca demon manifesting on a container ship hauling trash, but in her trademark style there's a parallel plot and threat. The story is populated by well rounded and credible characters and the maritime aspects are well researched, lending credibility to the endeavor - recommended.
A cracking monster horror, rarely stinting on the gore and description, building up characters and isolated setting, but then abandoning most of that for a fairly routine runaround final section, which inevitably disappoints.
lots of very very scary ways to die here...
This was a book on the edge. On the edge of being terrifying, being utterly suspenseful, of being climactic and dramatic. It never tipped over that edge for me, but it was still an alright little read!
I didn't enjoy this one as much as her other two Horror books. I think the setting of an oil tanker didn't really help; there are only so many ways you can describe metal boxes and bulkheads. Still better than a lot of supposedly scary books out there though.
Esther Mulholland's discovery of an Incan tribe yields an opportunity for her to commence writing her thesis to one-up a despised professor. Unbeknownst to Esther, the only female on the ship, she has become an unwitting pawn in the entity's plans. Yet, Esther's story is not the only one unfolding on this trash-filled ship. There is that of Matthew Cotton, first officer, and that of Captain Lloyd Skinner. So many demons while dealing with a demon. Even the back cover of the book provides insight...
A novel about an ancient demon stirring within the confines of a load of trash aboard a massive cargo ship sounds like it could be plodding and monotonous. But instead, author Muriel Gray gives us interesting characters, a plausible chain of events, and intertwined mysteries, topped off with a dollop of horror – and such ingredients did make it near “unputdownable” (as Stephen King is quoted on the cover)! The threads of plot, and relationships between characters, all flow easily together as the...
“Only half…was visible from where she waited, but it was enough to skin her soul.” (p.286)I have to admit, Muriel Gray’s book The Ancient made my skin crawl more than once. This work is a creature fiction and an unsettling example of why some cultural differences should not be explored, let alone accepted. Ester Mulholland’s intent is not to attract the attention of an ancient evil, but she does.What made The Ancient so unique, other than the story is, all but the first three chapters take place...
I found this book to be interesting and suspenseful. There were so many different things to follow and solve.
could not get into this one, the setting and characters just did nothing for me. having said that, there was nothing 'wrong' with the writing or the story, it just wasnt my cup of tea and im a major horror fan.
‘The Ancient’ falls squarely into one my favourite sub-genres: Monster in a confined space. This time the monster is an Ancient Incan deity and the confined space is a cargo ship. The story is populated with a great cast: a kickass heroine who wouldn’t be out of place in a James Cameron movie, a drunk in need of redemption and a cowardly, scheming human villain who causes almost as many problems as the monster. Along the way are some great scary scenes, a tonne of gore, enough action to keep thi...
