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Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781593153571
ISBN number: 1593153570
Label: Vanguard Press
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Page Count: 400
Printing Date: September 01, 2006
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On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and prepare to break into the Paragon Hotel. The once-magnificent structure is now boarded up and marked for demolition.They are “creepers”: urban explorers with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets. Reporter Frank Balenger joins them to profile this highly illegal activity for the New York Times. But he isn’t looking for just another story, and soon after they enter the rat-infested tunnel leading to the hotel, he gets more than he bargained for. Danger, fear, and death await the creepers in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil.
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Urban Exploration.
People who break into closed or abandoned buildings and creep around in the dark.
Sounds like the making of a great book, right? Especially in the capable hands of a master like David Morrell...i mean, this guy created John Freaking Rambo, for crying out loud!!!!!
CREEPERS is a pretty lean book.....It starts off running, as Reporter Frank Balenger meets up with a quartet of Creepers who are preparing to break into the long-abandoned Paragon Hotel, in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Before long, the group are in over their heads, with mutant rats, five-legged cats, secret passages, collapsing staircases, and long-buried secrets that should have stayed buried. Then, at about the 120 page mark, Morrell must have been having a bout of insomnia and surfed over to TBS and caught the old Ice Cube/Ice T Urban Explorer thriller TRESPASS, because Morrell changes the focus from determined-group-of-amateurs-in-over-their-heads to HOLY-CRAP, CRAZY-MURDEROUS-THUGS-ARE-HERE-TO STEAL-THE-HIDDEN-TREASURE, and it really took the book from fresh and new to utterly predictable, at least for me. Then, just as you start wondering "How the hell is he going to drag this out for another hundred pages??", Morrell takes yet another twist, this time for the better, by adding still another murderous psycho to the mix. (He also crafts one of the creepiest scenes I've ever read, as a character is silently decapitated, while the others are mere feet away, totally unaware. Brrrr......)
The book is well-written, without a doubt, but gets harder and harder to swallow as it goes on. Coincidence piles upon coincidence until credibility isn't just stretched, it's snapped and left lying there in pieces. The hero is a reporter. But then again, he's also a Gulf War veteran. But wait, he's also a former Detective!!! And if you order now, he'll also be searching for his long-missing wife, whose corpse just happens to be in the hotel, along with the man who killed her!
It's all a little much to ask a reader to swallow.
CREEPERS is a fun read, kind of like Richard Laymon when he was really running on all cylinders, but my throat still hurts from everything Mr. Morrell asked me to swallow.
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A team of creepers otherwise known as urban explorers are gearing up for their subsequent expedition to the famous Paragon Hotel. The group consists of Robert Conkin, a professor of history at the State University in Buffalo, Vincent Vanelli, high school teacher, Cora and Rick Magill both graduates from State University, and last but not least is Frank Balenger, a reporter with the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
The Paragon Hotel was designed by Morgan Carlisle, who was a very wealthy man. Once inside the hotel the group starts running into some very bizarre and strange things including mutated critters. Beware those that go bump in the night.
When I very first read the summary for this book I thought this might be an ok work of fiction. It only took me reading a little ways into this book and I was hooked. David Morrell turned Creepers into a hauntingly, spine-tingling good old fashion horror novel. I found it spooky how each room in the hotel kept getting scarier and scarier; bring the group closer to the evil that dwells in the Paragon Hotel. I would read another book by Mr. Morrell.
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There are plenty of long reviews, so I'll be brief. This book sat in my stack of books to read for well over a year, and after buying the sequel I figured it was time to pick it up...and I'm thrilled I did. This is one of the fastest reads I've seen in a long time. It was almost impossible to put down. Don't look for anything 'deep' as some of the author's other works tend to get, but this is a fun, rollercoaster page turner.
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I bought by chance his new book about a time capsule, and devoured it in only a few days...then had to order this one ("Creepers") it is so pace-changing, disturbing at so many levels, and so eye-catching you practically have to sit down to read the whole thing...excellent storytelling, suspense and mystery...the sounds (clang clang clang) make you remember some horror movies, and the twists throw you in all directions...also you may learn something by reading this book...a MUST READ!!!
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David Morrell is my new publishing hero. Creepers is a true page-turner. If you're looking for a beach book or an airplane book, this is it.
It's the very first of Morrell's books that I've read. What attracted me to it was the blurb and its reference to the "glory days of Asbury Park." When I turned to the back flap and learned he was the author of Rambo, I was flabbergasted. Frankly, I had no idea Rambo had an author: I thought he was Sylvester Stalone's excuse for baring his chest on film a second time. I don't think I ever saw a Rambo movie, but after reading Creepers I probably will read the book.
I'm not a great fan of thrillers. Even in this book I sort of skimmed the "action" paragraphs. But this is a ripping good story, with a highly evocative setting, and fairly interesting, fairly bright characters.
When in 2003 (I think it was) I last saw the old boardwalk and abandoned amusement part in Asbury Park, NJ, I thought, 'This is a perfect movie set.' I wish I had thought up the plot of Creepers then and written this book myself. I would have done it a bit differently, but that doesn't change the fact that Asbury Park is a weird place worth exploring in fiction, as well as real life.
The premise of an expedition of urban archeologists setting off to explore an old, pre-WW I hotel that survived everything except the 1960s is intriguing. The hardback edition I read includes an "Author's Note" at the end that describes some of the world's great sub-urban tunnels and creepy old buildings, including the Parisian catacombs, which I visited in about 1999. I definitely have plans for a story set there. I was the only "tourist" who was dumb enough to go down there in November (Beaujolais Nouveau Day). The whole time, I kept thinking, "You're hyperventilating. There's no danger here." Duh.
Why did I give this book 4 stars, rather than 5? Well, I guessed the ending. However, I kept reading to the end anyway.
Why is Morrell my new publishing hero? Because this book was self-published. CD Books is Morrell's answer to what he apparently disliked about the conglomerates. (I haven't checked yet, but I hope Morrell's books are also available in Kindle editions.)
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