BOOK REVIEW: NIGHT ROADS BY JOHN FOSTER

by John Boden 

This book, the second in John Foster's Libros De Inferno series and let me tell, being a fan of the first one--this one blows that one clear out of the water.  Foster takes the nightmare seeds sewn in the first volume and waters them with tear and blood and spurs the to grow hideous fruit. Scarred and tumorous things that prowl the night in pitch-black cars and wear slit-backed suits. 

The Priest is once again trying to call up the dead, in the form of his own personal "Four Horsemen." 
Alice, the mad Englishman and his gruesome partner The Ghoul, unspeaking and unfathomably terrifying.  The rogue, Kismet who is part preacher, part philosopher and one-hundred percent psychotic, even undead. All of them converging on John Smith, the man made of scars and muscle. The only one who seems to possess the power to punch back the hell their creating.  His strength seems destined to be magnified when he meets up with Hoodoo Girl, a child with a lifetime of powers in her bag of tricks.

This book has some of the most visceral and gruelingly horrible images I've read since I first encountered Clive Barker's Books Of Blood. I mean, the witches (and you'll know what I mean when you read it) Christ on a cracker they gave me nightmares.  The church meeting. So many horror-hemorrhaging scenes of butchery and dark doings.  I cannot wait until the next book comes out.  I was already a fan of Foster's work but this book took that existing fandom, gave it a wedgie and kicked it crying to the ground and then told it it had no idea what it was in for.  I'm excited about this prospect.
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Night Roads is available from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing.




 


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