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This book was loaned to me by one of the guys at the Nightmare Factory book club. I believe he said something like, this isn't a good book, but its great fun, and he was right. This is the same Whitley Strieber who has sunk into making self-aggrandizing claims about aliens, and launched a completely bullshit-filled career, but before that, he wrote a couple decent trashy horror novels, this being one. It's not literary in any sense, but the plot is good, and the gore is nasty, and the viewpoints...
Pretty easy to see why this is a classic horror novel, and one I believe was even made into a movie. First published in 1978, Srieber's novel holds up very well thank you. This is obviously a monster story, but it takes form as a police procedural in NYC. Our main protagonist, Becky, is a cop in homicide, and after a nasty prologue where two cops get offed in a junkyard, she and her partner come to the scene. The two cops are basically shredded, throats ripped out and major organs missing. The o...
This is a brilliant non-werewolf book--one of the first--that ties spirituality into the monstrosity. Brilliant!
Nah, nuh, no way, nohow.
WOLFEN takes the werewolf myth and reimagines it in some clever ways. While these intelligent pack hunters aren't exactly like the Lon Chaney sort, they are still the stuff of nightmares. Streiber does a great job of turning New York City into an urban hunting ground for the monsters of the title, and the reader quickly realizes that sudden death may be lurking under every car, behind every shadow, around every corner. The author establishes a sort of Neo-Gothic atmosphere that works perfectly f...
this first-on paperback edition of his debut is such a gem for mehope the collection i do will make me just feel peaceful as i die some day
”The paw. He turned it in his hands, looking at its supple efficiency for the hundredth time. He placed it on the desk, then picked it up again and ran its claws along his cheek. It would do its job well, this paw. The long toes with their extra joints. The broad, sensitive pads. The needle-sharp claws. Almost...what a human being might have if people had claws. It had the same functional beauty as a hand, a lethal one.”I first became aware of Whitley Strieber in 1987 when he published his first...
Something strong, wild and fast kills people in New York City. When two policemen are murdered in a gruesome way Becky Neff and her partner George Wilson start the inquiries. The found incredible insight who or better what the perps are... this book gives a new background dimension to all the werewolf novels and stories I read so far. It was fast paced, compelling, gory, eerie at some past and gives you perspectives into the minds of werewolves opposed to humans for thousands of years. This was
uuugghhhhhhhhThis book was not good. It was recommended to me as one of the scariest books that person had ever read, which, lol. It had enjoyable moments--in the beginning, it seemed like it was going to be a fast-paced supernatural thriller, grounded in the reality of two cops just doing their jobs--but it quickly became very, very boring. Sluggish. Ill-paced. The pacing really was its most damnable trait (though far from its only one). The narrative was bogged down by perspectives from litera...
Wolf Pack Attack!Backstory:Two detectives (Becky Neff and George Wilson) are on the hunt for whoever killed two policemen, but when they find out that it is not a "who" they are looking for but a "what" is when things become interesting. Neff and Wilson find out that something with paw prints were all over the two dead policemen and they begin to wonder what kind of animals would have killed the officers. They soon learn though that what killed the officers cannot be real as it can only be a myt...
The first time that I ever heard of this book was when I was nine years old. I was at a boy scout camp and one of the other children took great pleasure in telling me about this book and how it was about werewolves ripping children apart at a scout camp. I was scared to the point that in the middle of the night, I packed my gear and walked ten miles home through country lanes.It wasn’t until I found the courage to actually read the book, two years later, that I found out that the kid had been fu...
This short book took a while to read because I had to read it twice. The book starts out wonderfully. It's super-fast paced. We're locked into the main characters, and looking forward to seeing how they survive their gruesome situation when all of a sudden at the halfway point we get hit with digression after digression. Starting at page 139 we get all this background and folklore we really don't need or care about. When that finally ends, in comes new characters (a reporter and a photographer)
Been meaning to reread this ever since I accidentally bought another copy of this book (to my defense it had a different cover). I gave it 5 stars the first time and was a little weary that I wouldn't love it as much but luckily O did. One of the better werewolf books I've read and it had me intrigued to try to find more werewolf's books out there. But I usually just come across paranormal romance, which is nice sometimes but I want other more thrilling reads as well
The Wolfen features two New York City detectives (one male, one female) who are investigating the killing of two cops. Their investigation leads them into unknown territory as it becomes clear that the two cops were not killed by humans. So who did kill them? The Wolfen.Strieber has created a new take on the werewolf genre. The Wolfen are not werewolves as such. They are not humans who turn into wolves but more of a crossbreed between humans and wolves. They show characteristics of both species....
Great suspenseful fun....engaging....hard to put down.....I loved how the author told much of the story from the Wolfens' points of view...as if in their head, listening to their thoughts....great read for the Halloween season...if you haven't read it, get a copy,and save it back for Oct. 2016!
I'm not sure what it is about 70s horror novels, but many of them have a certain feel that I just love; Carrie, The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, The Omen all great. Now I can add The Wolfen to that list.This book starts out with a couple of policemen being killed in an automobile pound, under very strange circumstances. This puts a couple of very smart, determined detectives on the trail of the killers, which turn out to be werewolves. These are not your normal werewolves however. They are not peo...
Part pulpy supernatural thriller, part detective noir, The Wolfen rises above similar books in the genre with its intelligent and convincing depiction of werewolves as a separate species. It has a great sense of place with its setting of 1970s urban New York. The action scenes are exciting and the wolfen point of view quite fascinating. This was a recommendation from a reading buddy and I'm very glad I read it.
This was such a fur-tastic book! I’m glad I chose to listen to the audiobook for this one. There was a lot of action in this book, and could hear the anxiousness in the narrators voice during those fast-paced and intense scenes. It really made the whole listening experience so much fun. It was a howling good time!I’m not surprised, though. It’s a Crossroads Press production. Their audiobooks are TOP NOTCH!
That Strieber's 1978 debut novel was a success is no surprise. Great take on the werewolf legend and very suspenseful.
Some time ago I made a comment on an online forum that I felt annoyed and depressed at the complete lack of intelligent and readily available horror reading material. Recently I have been pleasantly surprised to discover such gems as “The Concrete Grove” by Gary McMahon and the ultimate werewolf tail (little play on words !) High Moor by Graeme Reynolds a new and rising star in this genre…so belief and a smile are slowly returning to my face.After some difficulty I was successful in securing a c...