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Blood Hunter is one of the best pieces of horror fiction I have read in some time. As a fan of the genre, I am generally disappointed (more and more so lately) by flat characters or predictable storylines, but this book doesn't succumb to either of those pitfalls.

The characters, even the minor ones, are rich and fully developed, and the story never quite goes where I think it will. Having spent a good amount of time in Louisiana, I love how this book captures the folklore and nature of its locality. This book is definitely scary, but what makes it great is that each of the characters and situations (even the fantastic ones) seem perfectly believable and real.

I highly recommend this to any fan of horror fiction. You won't be disappointed. Williams has serious chops!


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Blood Hunter edition by Sidney Williams David Dodd Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

We start off ugly, two habitual troublemakers, Cody Jackson and Mark Turner are dragged out of jail by the police in Louisiana to an out of the way place in Bayou Fannin, near Penn's Ferry, and are to be hunted for sport by the cops. Unfortunately, the cops aren't the only thing out in the bayou, and these things are the more successful hunters, and Cody and Mark become dinner.

This incident sets the stage for the novel proper, as "Blood Hunter" with Everett 'Jag' Walker, the young, newbie and wannabee reporter for the "Aimsley Daily Clarion" getting into trouble after kicking the crap out of married man who is boffing his "girlfriend". This puts Jag on the radar with the local police, and in the drunk tank with a long-time drunk, who gives Jag his first hint as to what "the swamp" is. Then the drunk is "released", never to be seen again.

We are also quickly introduced Debra Blane, half-sister to the, now deceased, Mark Turner, who's on a mission to find out what has happened to her brother, and finding his life in tatters, and his career in question, Jag offers to help her on her quest.

We will also be introduced to Tim Gunter & Bess Jackson, a working poor couple on the verge of breaking up; Serena Rand, the rich, isolated, overprotected, lonely, and depressed daughter of the domineering, reclusive, and psychotic Nicholas Rand; Nicholas Rand's dangerous bodyguard, Scarecrow; and LeFleaur, the bitter and jaded cop, who knows more than he lets on to.

Both Jag and Debra, neither of which are cinemaesque superheroes, will continue their investigations, both individually, and in tandem, and as their investigation's momentum continues to escalate, more and more people, and attention is drawn to Jag and Debra's investigation, both pro and con.

Williams is an ex-newspaper reporter, and "Blood Hunter" is a combination of a horror, monster, crime, mystery, and newspaper investigative novel, and Williams combines all of these genres well. This is a novel that is also, at times, a snapshot of pop culture and life in 1990, y'know, back when MTV actually showed videos, and there were no cell phones. Since Williams is now re-releasing these novels as e-books, I hope that he hasn't revised these touches out of the novels.

Before this novel, I had yet to hear of the momo/mormo, a local bayou boogeyman. Novels that exploit local legends, like the Jersey Devil, or the momo/mormo are novels that usually catch my attention, and Williams does a great job at using these subhumans, that strike fear in Indians, Cajun, and locals alike. Now the plans of the vigilantes that thought that these boogeymen were under their control are suddenly becoming more and more unpredictable, unmanageable, and uncontrollable.

One of the things that kept me reading this novel was that Williams has a deft hand at characterization, even the characters that you won't like are interesting enough to keep us reading. Williams is also good at his mini-portraits of even his walk-on characters, while not as fleshed out as his major characters, he gives everybody enough identifiable characteristics that most readers will at least know somebody just like the people portrayed.

As the novel progresses, all the various storylines will gradually become braided together into one explosive ending. And it is here that while exciting, the ending is at times, a bit anti-climatic, as major characters, which are constantly portrayed as bad-ass, end up as nothing more that cannon fodder. Still, I liked the whole siege part of the ending, until the last part of it, where Williams gives us a little too much saccharine as he sets up the novel for a sequel. Four stars for a novel that has echoes of Charles L. Grant, early Edward Lee (minus the sex), and Kolchak. This is a prime late eighties/early nineties horror thriller, so if you're tired of sexy vampires, zombies, and apocalyptic whatevers, this is the novel for you. If I can get a hold of other novels by Williams, I'll gladly try to review them here.

Two quick postscripts. I wanted to stand up and cheer when Debra fights off a rapist, and gets a hold of a gun and sends his nards to hell. You go girl!!! The second postscript is about the cover. If you stretch it a bit, it does illustrate a scene in the novel, and if the cover model looks vaguely familiar, in an interview with the artist E. T. Broeck Steadman, he mentions that the model is a thirteen-year-old Ali Larter, before she became an actress.

I plunder the past for your pleasure. For this site I have reviewed these other obscure and forgotten horror books

Andy by Bradley Snow.
Bestial by Ray Garton.
Behind the Door by Frank Lambirth.
Black Wolf by Galad Elflandsson.
Doll's Eyes by Bari Wood.
Ghost Pilot by Anton Emmerton.
Howl by Christine Tanasiuk.
In Silent Graves by Gary A. Braunbeck.
The Lake by R. Karl Largent
The Midnight Hour by Donald Bacon.
Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson.
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep by Frank Lambirth.
Night of the Wolf by Jay Callahan.
Plasmid by Robert Knight (Christopher Evens).
Ravenous by Ray Garton.
The Rosedale Horror by Jon Ruddy.

Plus all the horror novels of Michael Paine, whose reviews can be accessed here

The Mummy Dark Resurrection by Michael Paine.

And all of the horror novels by Richard Lewis which can be accessed here

Possessed.
Horror, by Sidney Williams. This one takes place in the Louisiana swamps, a setting I'm somewhat familiar with. Williams captured it perfectly.
You could say the story here has been told a thousand times before. Monsters. People facing off against monsters. But here Williams has done something unusual...he's planted within this tale a mix of crime and cops and regional lore that blends effortlessly into a fabulously enjoyable feast of mystery and mild gore.

The ravenous creature here is not for the faint of heart. It chomps and chews with abandon, and Williams does it justice with detailed description of its meals--often human, if you hadn't guessed. But part of the fun here is seeing those who who deserve chomping get what's coming to them.

Recommended for a night time read, in a room alone, and just to make it fun do so on a windy night so you can wonder about that sound just outside the window. It's probably the wind. Probably.
Blood Hunter is one of the best pieces of horror fiction I have read in some time. As a fan of the genre, I am generally disappointed (more and more so lately) by flat characters or predictable storylines, but this book doesn't succumb to either of those pitfalls.

The characters, even the minor ones, are rich and fully developed, and the story never quite goes where I think it will. Having spent a good amount of time in Louisiana, I love how this book captures the folklore and nature of its locality. This book is definitely scary, but what makes it great is that each of the characters and situations (even the fantastic ones) seem perfectly believable and real.

I highly recommend this to any fan of horror fiction. You won't be disappointed. Williams has serious chops!