Erebus Paperback – 28 Jun. 1990

really enjoyed it excellent read. i think shaun hutsons early work was far better than is newer stuff, unfortunately you are unable to get is early work on kindle.

Great condition and great book

I remember this book from back in the day, I was 211 a while back and this has always stuck with me. I dont like horror movies but enjoy books. I originally borrowed this off a friend and loved it from start to finish, you really get a picture in your mindof the situations arrising.So I brought this for my girlfriend to read who loves things gore! She has only read 3 chapters but enjoys it and cant wait to finish it.A must read if you like horrors!!

I have just finished reading this book; whilst his incredibly bloody and gore-filled descriptions made my stomach churn and want to the want to put the book down, I couldn't. I was riveted from the first page, eager to see how it all turned out - though I have to say that I was a little disappointed with the ending.An interesting and certainly original storyline, some flimsy characters and colourful descriptions (even if he is a bit too fond of using certain words!!), this book is definately worth a read.

The people of Wakely are pale and gaunt. They have abnormally long fingernails and prominent teeth. Some of them have hair on the of their hands. Their animals are ugly and vicious, their offspring born mutant. Mares eat their newborn foals, bullocks rampage in the slaughterhouse and kill their would-be butchers. What is poisoning the life-bood of this small town? What evil force has it in thrall? Known for his basic use of the English language and four letter expletives, Shaun Hutson shines with this gory tale. He writes as the man on the street speaks, and his stories are of the man on the street, and in this he excels.

As a big fan of Shaun Hutson's work, my first expectation was that I would get a well written novel, something that would draw me in, something that would engage me until the last page.Naturally, this he did, with his usual input of violence, gore, romance and all that other good stuff.The novel is based around the character of Tyler, who, after the recent death of his father moves back to the farm he had left to work in the city. However, due to the tampering of a local company of the livestock's food, it causes them to act with cannibalistic tendencies, described in Shaun's usual way.The chemicals put into the food transfers itself into the humans who eat the animals, with hazardous consequences. These consequences, obviously I would rather not go into, without spoiling the book, but I will say this: Shaun offers a very feasible explanation for one of horror's greatest, and perhaps oldest myths.An excellent read, perhaps one of Shaun's best works. Highly recommended

I read this book a long time ago, but it is still vivid in my mind. I enjoyed this book fully as I always enjoy good horror and slight mobid humour.

The "godfather of gore" Shaun Hutson did a number of pulpy gruesome horror classics in the 80s, in the shape of Slugs, Spawn, Assassin, Victims etc, sadly Erebus is not one of his best. As ever with Hutson, it's written in a brisk, fast moving style, gallons of gore and non stop action, but Erebus's downfall is basically that the storyline is a bit dull - a mysterious chemicals factory has opened in a small town, and it is giving the farmers animal feed, which turns the animals into overgrown insane cannibals, and turns any humans who eat the meat into thin palid vampires. Yep, that's it, sounds like the storyline to a dreadful generic 80s low budget horror movie that failed dismally at the box office.Despite Hutson's usual enthusiastic writing, the build is actually very laboured, with countless similar scene-setting stories of the diseased animals and the humans becoming wierd vampires, all told in the same way over and over, yeah we get the point, is this book going to go anywhere? Belated things actually start to happen, with our protagonist, a dashing farmer, and his squeeze some American journalist......of course this being Hutson, there's the obligatory gratuitous sex scene between them, and also a bizarre racist conversation over a romantic dinner they have (maybe excusable in the 80s, but not now). Everything flies together later with a climax of gore, but it feels like you've had a proper slog of irrelevant details to get through before then.Not one of his best, a Hutson fan will have already read this, and a newcomer should start elsewhere