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The Cadaver (Hardcover)

by Guy N. Smith (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 197 pages
  • Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd (Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0727865706
  • ISBN-13: 978-0727865700
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 652,183 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Like Stephen King and Dean Koontz, Smith is a master at building suspense...a knuckle-biting blend of thriller and horror genres" Booklist on Blackout"

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In the small Welsh town of Knighton, a group of children, dressed for Halloween, gather outside the shabby house of the most feared and despised resident, Edward Kroll. With sunken eyes and thin, bloodless lips in a cadaverous face, Kroll is a frightening and mysterious figure. After one of the trick-or-treating children is killed in a freak accident, Kroll disappears. It seems that he may have died in his bed. But Kroll's vengeful spirit haunts the town from beyond the grave. When a figure closely resembling Kroll returns to the town, dressed in the familiar overcoat and trilby, the inhabitants start to question what, if anything, lies in that churchyard burial-place...

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4.0 out of 5 stars Back From the Dead, 1 Mar 2008
By Foggy Tewsday - See all my reviews
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In this novel from horror maestro, Guy N. Smith, a very old man manages to keep a whole community terrorised just by existing. Well, it makes a change from the obnoxious brats that terrorise many neighbourhoods these days. Edward Kroll, it has to be said, is not a pleasant fellow. He is reclusive, bad-mannered, lacking in personal hygiene and his house is in such disrepair that it's a wonder that it's still standing. A prime target for the village's up-and-coming hoodlums. Or at least he is until anyone tries to cross him, because those that do seem to wind up dead.

It's great to have Guy N. Smith back with a horror novel and in outstanding form, too. Gone are the graphic sex scenes that decorated much of his prolific output in the 1970s and 1980s with such classics as `The Sucking Pit' and `Son of the Werewolf'. Along with James Herbert, Guy N. Smith kept me gleefully entertained in my youth with their tales of gruesome horror and liberal sprinklings of sex. I regret to say that I find Herbert's later work to be insipid and formulaic. It was a relief, therefore, to find that Smith has lost none of his prowess. Certainly, we're not talking Booker Prize material here. But what Smith delivers is a short, creepy, satisfying read.

If I have one criticism, it's that the lack of exposition holds the story back a little. For me, the supernatural element is underplayed to such an extent that I kept doubting that any may be in play. However, where the story does score highly is in Smith's alacrity with descriptive detail. Kroll's only appearances outside his house are for his twice weekly visits to the local eatery. His nauseating eating habits had me feeling quite queasy as did the passages describing Kroll's stench-filled hovel.

For all Kroll's unpleasantness, I did enjoy his reign of terror over the local feral youths. Their former nocturnal mayhem has given way to cowering in their bedrooms playing computer games for fear of running into the nasty old man. For more old people dishing out the nastiness on the young, take a look at Shaun Hutson's entertaining `Compulsion'.

So, a welcome return for Guy N. Smith. Let's hope that it's not too long before he regales us again with more of his nasty imaginings.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Smith; of Certain Appeal to Horror Fans..., 31 May 2009
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Another successful and original addition to Guy N Smith's vast and varied oeuvre. The Cadaver delivers a gripping depiction of a village in thrall to a bizarre and deadly old man.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Guy playing to his strengths again..., 1 Jul 2008
By Roger Shallot (Merrie England) - See all my reviews
Guy N Smith is a prolific author, mostly in the Horror genre, and whilst I have the utmost affection for his work the quality has at times been variable. 'Cadaver' sees him returning to something like his best, illustrating perfectly what an imaginative writer he can be. In this one a nasty old man terrorises the small Anglo-Welsh border town of Knighton - apparently without actually doing anything too objectional himself. He eats like a pig in the local restaurant and isn't too friendly (especially to the town's kids), but bad things do happen to people who upset him. In true Smith style most of the victims go some way to earning their fate by not behaving too well themselves, and seasoned fans of this author know what happens when characters infringe the moral code....There's a nice atmosphere to this one, a little old-fashioned perhaps, but then there's nothing wrong with that. The ending actually leaves the reader with something to think about, and all-in-all this is a very decent little chiller. I'd like to see more in a similar vein, and look forward to Mr.Smith's next release with something of the anticipation that I felt as a young horror-hound in the seventies and eighties. I wonder what Gordon Hall's up to these days ?
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