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Black Angel

By: Graham Masterton
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mandarin
ISBN: 0749309636
ISBN-13: 9780749309633
Released: 05 Dec 1991
RRP: £5.99
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One Of His Very Best - By: Buffalo22, 05 Sep 2007
Black Angel doesn't take prisoners; a black hole of a novel that sucks the reader in. from the ticking time-bomb of an introduction, Black Angel is one of Graham Masterton's very best novels. It is dark, oozing with blood & a genuinely scary book.
This book will stay with you for a very long time to come.
Horrorfying, Terrifying and Truly Brilliant - By: venom_v1, 03 Sep 2005
Black Angel has to be one of the most darkest horror novels around. With he first chapter, being truly dark & very detailed.

this in itself may well put many people off the rest of the book, which is far less graphic.

However for those who do dare to venture on, what the will find is the work of a true horror genius, an in-dept & terrifing story, with many truly greate moments of supernatural horror, held within its pages

A recommened read

bad but good - By: A A Jackson, 12 Aug 2005
This is the first Masterton book that i've read & frankly the first few chapters sickened me. Masterton has a knack of shocking the reader & maintaining a gripping story to ensure that no matter how afraid you are, you keep reading on.
A truly shocking but riveting read.
Black Angel - By: Rich Milligan, 12 Jun 2005
I haven't read a Graham Masterton book for many a year now, the last one having scared me witless, so when I picked this one up I was interested to see how I would find it after such a gap in reading some of his works.

I suppose my reaction to it would be somewhere between incredulous laughter & sickening distaste.

I like to think myself as fan of thrillers & I don't mind the odd bit of horror thrown in for good measure, but when the detailed explanation of ritual torture is laid about us, with the so obvious singular tactic of trying to disgust the reader, then I reallly do start to question the writer's basic skills. If the author can't make anything scary without resorting to such base methods then I'd rather read an autopsy report.

Leaving the horror sections aside, I'm afraid the basic story telling of the book is just not good enough. The character definition & development is non-existent with nearly alll characters changing attributes back & forth throughout the book. Was Foggia a risk taking maverick, or a cool stoic family man? I don't know as he showed elements of alll. The scene where Foggia takes over the case from Arne was similarly confusing; from the dialogue you couldn't work out the mindset of either. There was no effort to try to explain any motives behind the actions & the reactions of certain characters to certain events were unlikely to say the least. "Oh my mother's just been turned into a dwarf & now's been splattered under the wheels of a juggernaught, never mind, on with the job!"

I've no doubt that Mr Masterton has leagues of fans out there that lap up every bloody splattered word he writes, but personallly I found this limp, tiresome & once I'd got over some of the descriptions, rather boring.

One of his best! - By: , 18 Mar 2004
This novel gets straight into it. A ritualistic killer rampages through 80's San Francisco, killing innocent families in the most appallling ways. His aim is to resurrect an abhorrent angel; the demon Belial. The first chapter details the sixth ritual, which I feel even Graham Masterton took things a little too far. Disturbing, yes...but certainly a gripping book. It is up to an instinctive detective to catch the killer, but his involvement & curiosity brings him face to face with the demon, & now he must send him back to the limbo from which he came.