Sixties and Seventies - Pan & Fontana, Michel Parry, Richard Davis, Hugh Lamb & Co.ĭemon flower power! Michel Parry, Richard Davis, Hugh Lamb, Ramsey Campbell, David Sutton, Brian A.
Celebrate the legend of Britain's most prolific horror anthologist. To top everything, what is an incredibly fast paced, apocalyptic read a la the author's later Maggots, the entire plot is briefly interrupted for a historical tour of Rye! Score two for plot, five for the writing and that eight for pure enjoyment.A one-man publishing industry. Jarvis almost runs out of superlatives to describe the size of his protagonists, and even makes out that Canvey Island is somehow worse for mankind than a worldwide plague of immense man-eating, ship-eating lampreys. He ends up running CHOP (Co-ordination and Help to Overcome Pestilence) and promptly discovers the culprit: giant lampreys from a prehistoric age brought back to the surface by illegal Soviet atomic weapon tests. Luckily Marshall is an ex-journalist who soon gets rehired by the news business to find out just what the hell is going on. Cats are decapitated in empty swimming pools, ducks dive never to surface and Garry Marshall loses two fingers while clearing out his drains.
Worldwide reports are coming in of a strangely regular seismic disturbance in the Mariana trench and small animals disappearing near water. This may be worthless as a nasty novel, but as a send up of the whole nasty genre, this almost outdoes Monty Python in places.
Technically it's absolute garbage, so why do I award it a decent eight out of ten mark? In one word: 'humour'. Pestilence is short, with a standard start, and some really bad dialogue. Hal C F Astell - The Last Page Bookshop - The Horror Reviews - Pestilence - Edward Jarvis Home.
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