Review of The Devil's Eclipse
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Review of The Devil's Eclipse
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Devil's Eclipse" by Christopher Williams.]
The Devil's Eclipse by Christopher Williams is a collection of horror stories about demons, beasts, extra-dimensional beings, and extra-terrestrial aliens. The book is a mix of stories on scary beings and their traumatic - and mostly fatal - effects on the humans that encountered them. In the first story, an old pedophile gets his long deserved visit from the "karma police", in the form of a demon sent by the devil to devour his soul. The second story on the other hand deals with a couple's traumatic experience with their pastor, who is in fact, a demon. The third story is on racial justice - albeit, in the crudest form possible - being visited on a racist old man. The fourth story captures the horror of a single father facing his worst nightmare, right in his own home, while the fifth story is about mean children and the steep punishment they received from a horrific demon. The sixth story is about a single mother's horrifying experience with her son in their new house, while the seventh one captures a macabre experiment on a soldier, which leads to a disaster. The final story centres on aliens in a small US town, and how they insidiously entrapped and killed some of the town's residents.
The Devil's Eclipse is a collection of stories that frankly got me disgusted at the grotesque actions described, but there is arguably some positivity - if one is willing to excuse the brutal and sometimes, senseless killings - to be found in the sentiment behind some of the stories that are centred on social justice. While I am ambivalent toward moralizing those stories due to how macabre they are, I've also found that I agree with the underlying message of justice. The book is a positive reminder that the average human can sometimes resort to - or at least agree with - the most debased actions, in pursuit of a perceived ideal.
On a more conspicuous negative note, The Devil's Eclipse is filled with very bizarre stories that frankly elicit more disgust than fear and horror. Maybe it is because I read the author's preface, in which he promised to rain "horror and brimstones" on the reader, but I came off with the impression that the book's stories did not deliver on the promise of taking the reader on a wildly frightening experience that will leave them afraid of their shadows. While the stories were horrifying to some extent, they somehow still felt like a lot of promise for so little action.
I'm giving The Devil's Eclipse a 2 out of 4 stars rating, mostly because of the underwhelming effect of reading its stories, but also because of the sizable number of grammatical errors I noticed.
This is a book that I might recommend to fans of gory tales, but I must warn it might not be as deeply entertaining as other horror books they are familiar with.
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The Devil's Eclipse by Christopher Williams is a collection of horror stories about demons, beasts, extra-dimensional beings, and extra-terrestrial aliens. The book is a mix of stories on scary beings and their traumatic - and mostly fatal - effects on the humans that encountered them. In the first story, an old pedophile gets his long deserved visit from the "karma police", in the form of a demon sent by the devil to devour his soul. The second story on the other hand deals with a couple's traumatic experience with their pastor, who is in fact, a demon. The third story is on racial justice - albeit, in the crudest form possible - being visited on a racist old man. The fourth story captures the horror of a single father facing his worst nightmare, right in his own home, while the fifth story is about mean children and the steep punishment they received from a horrific demon. The sixth story is about a single mother's horrifying experience with her son in their new house, while the seventh one captures a macabre experiment on a soldier, which leads to a disaster. The final story centres on aliens in a small US town, and how they insidiously entrapped and killed some of the town's residents.
The Devil's Eclipse is a collection of stories that frankly got me disgusted at the grotesque actions described, but there is arguably some positivity - if one is willing to excuse the brutal and sometimes, senseless killings - to be found in the sentiment behind some of the stories that are centred on social justice. While I am ambivalent toward moralizing those stories due to how macabre they are, I've also found that I agree with the underlying message of justice. The book is a positive reminder that the average human can sometimes resort to - or at least agree with - the most debased actions, in pursuit of a perceived ideal.
On a more conspicuous negative note, The Devil's Eclipse is filled with very bizarre stories that frankly elicit more disgust than fear and horror. Maybe it is because I read the author's preface, in which he promised to rain "horror and brimstones" on the reader, but I came off with the impression that the book's stories did not deliver on the promise of taking the reader on a wildly frightening experience that will leave them afraid of their shadows. While the stories were horrifying to some extent, they somehow still felt like a lot of promise for so little action.
I'm giving The Devil's Eclipse a 2 out of 4 stars rating, mostly because of the underwhelming effect of reading its stories, but also because of the sizable number of grammatical errors I noticed.
This is a book that I might recommend to fans of gory tales, but I must warn it might not be as deeply entertaining as other horror books they are familiar with.
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The Devil's Eclipse
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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