Secret of Crickley Hall

I am a big fan of James Herbert, and this book lives up to his legend. All though not as brilliant in my eyes as Once its still a great tale. It got all the ingedients for a spooky read, where you can feel the hairs on your neck stand up. Yupp, he is certainly the master of spooks! A good, old fashioned, ghost story. With not just one ghost to be worried about! There is evil at Crickley Hall...more

I am a big fan of James Herbert, and this book lives up to his legend. All though not as brilliant in my eyes as Once its still a great tale. It got all the ingedients for a spooky read, where you can feel the hairs on your neck stand up. Yupp, he is certainly the master of spooks! A good, old fashioned, ghost story. With not just one ghost to be worried about! There is evil at Crickley Hall that will haunt you long after the last page!   hide

I found the start of this book to be slow going, alot of scene setting goes on for the first hundred pages or so. The pace picks up in the middle of the book and I really started to enjoy it, until in the last third of the book he introduces another character into it and we have to be painfully force fed his background. This ruined the book for me. I would of said that this book needs turning...more

I found the start of this book to be slow going, alot of scene setting goes on for the first hundred pages or so. The pace picks up in the middle of the book and I really started to enjoy it, until in the last third of the book he introduces another character into it and we have to be painfully force fed his background. This ruined the book for me. I would of said that this book needs turning into a movie. I don't think that's the case now, it will do just fine as another of his average books, better then his last one for sure, but still slightly mediocre from an author who has given us some great books in the past.   hide

Creepy and dark, if a little cliched at first (oh look, we're going to live in a big spooky mansion in the middle of nowhere - what a surprise, it's haunted!). But like most Herbert novels, it has a few fresh takes of a very, very tired idea. An enjoyable read, even if the narrative just skip characters PoV rather more than is entirely necessary.

I don't like horror books or anything scary but felt obliged to read it as I was given it as a birthday present. I prepared myself to be scared but it didn't happen. All these reviews of it being really scary...did I read a different book? If this is scary then I might actually get into horror books because they can't be that bad. Anyway, not a bad read but slow in places and quite...more

I don't like horror books or anything scary but felt obliged to read it as I was given it as a birthday present. I prepared myself to be scared but it didn't happen. All these reviews of it being really scary...did I read a different book? If this is scary then I might actually get into horror books because they can't be that bad. Anyway, not a bad read but slow in places and quite disturbing in others (that James Herbert must be strange fella ). Funny ending. Funny strange not funny ha ha!   hide