Yellow Moon

I think the Duffer Brothers should scrap whatever plans they have for Stranger Things and just option this for use as a season 3 blueprint instead You have your Upside Down like parallel world, with a group of five preteens and a sheriff Hopper analogue doing battle against the creatures that come through into the real world of Hawkins, Indr I mean Cleary, Ohio Indiana and Ohio are pretty much the same, anyway This would be way dark for the semi family friendly Stranger Things, but the show has [...]

Wow.Yes, that s pretty generic I know, but it s the only word that comes to mind when reflecting back on this book, which I finished reading only moments ago.What an incredible novel, one of those rare finds that you hope for when selecting an 80s 90s horror paperback, but seldom actually get a polished jewel hidden beneath a lurid cover.Bursting at the seams with vigor, wit and creativity, David Searls YELLOW MOON delivers the goods and then some The prose moves with such sleek efficiency I act [...]

I liked how Searls jumped right into weirdness and gory mayhem after introducing just enough detail and texture to give the locals substance The monsters are vicious, and when they tear through the locals the blood and death disturb I was fairly sure that everyone was going to die and that evil would reign unchecked for eternity The actual ending was anticlimactic, though competent enough I wonder if Searls felt some kind of pressure from friends from his editor from society from the muse to go [...]

A group of boys playing baseball in a park discover a drain and vanish when they explore it The police in Cleary, Ohio also have their hands full when an influx of homeless looking people start arriving around town.The boys return from the drain that led to another dimension and have brought along all kinds of shape shifting creatures as well as an odd yellow moonlight that bathes Cleary in dread.Searls short novel originally published in 1994 may have been a slightly different riff on King s IT [...]

Writing is very hard As Theodore Roosevelt said, it is not the critic that counts but the man who is in the arena I am not a writer and would not begin to know how to write a novel All of this is preface to say this is the first truly bad book I have read in a while, and yet it held my interest and was suspenseful I wanted to know what happened next.It s badly written but not uniformly so In fact, given the self published look of the pages and typeface, and a publishing house I had never heard o [...]

Wow.Yes, that s pretty generic I know, but it s the only word that comes to mind when reflecting back on this book, which I finished reading only moments ago.What an incredible novel, one of those rare finds that you hope for when selecting an 80s 90s horror paperback, but seldom actually get a polished jewel hidden beneath a lurid cover.Bursting at the seams with vigor, wit and creativity, David Searls YELLOW MOON delivers the goods and then some The prose moves with such sleek efficiency I act [...]

Gruesome but fun.

Samhain Publishing is on a roll I am continuously impressed with them because I have yet to read one of their titles that I have not liked I also have to commend the author of today s book, David Searls I reviewed one of his previous books last year, BLOODTHIRST IN BABYLON, but I feel that he actually topped himself with YELLOW MOON This book has a hearty dose of terror and a cringe factor that is off the charts Author David Searls certainly knows what horror fans want in their fiction One minut [...]

Its not just another day in Cleary, Ohio Why are all those homeleess people coming to town Where are all the voices coming from Where did those darn boys disappear to The author lures us into another world of strange creatures, bizarre plants complete with a for lack of a better word yellow moon Boys being boys, they just had to explore the drain that suddenly appeared, ultimately unleashing mayhem on their quiet little town It starts with crazy street people and escalates to all sorts of strang [...]

I was most pleasantly surprised by this book, which has such an unusual concept that you half expect it to be scattered and make no sense Instead, I found myself feeling similar to how I feel when I read a book by Clive Barker, one of my favorite authors Where the descriptions of things taking place are so horrific, so wrong, that it leaves your stomach tied in knots Where your very being cringes away at the thought of a world so disturbed, so deeply wrong It s almost as if you can t escape from [...]

Don t believe the hype I read the good reviews and the story sounded great Nope This story seemed to be missing parts of what should have been there There were way too many people for a novella, and because of this, I found it impossible for me to make even the smallest of connections with anybody Ultimately in the end there were no explanations at all as to what the yellow moon is, where it s from, etc.Actually, this was one really lousy book Oh, hey, at least everything was spelled correctly, [...]

DISCLAIMERS This is first read book I could not finish this book.The only reason this book has one star is because zero stars would make it look unrated The blurb does not indicate the incredibly disturbing imagery present in this book It seems as if the author has just written one sickening scene after the other Initially the characters seemed to be nicely developed but have been squandered as canon fodder for later gratuitously gruesome ends.

Yellow Moon has arrived just in time for a Halloween spookfest extraordinaire I recommend this for older teens who are able to handle some pretty freaky scenes and disturbing mental images with occasional cursing I will never look at a simple mothor draine same way again This one definitely fits the horror genre.

A very good and fast paced horror novel I will be reading books by this writer.

This was an interesting read, it was a little slow to begin with, however it soon picked up and was a pretty good read