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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. ”Werewolf by Moonlight”, Guy N. Smith's first novel, is a short, sharp, hard-driving, fast-moving piece of pulp horror schlock, the success of which created the platform for Smith's voluminous output over the subsequent decades. Set in and around the Black Hill farming country on the border between Shropshire and Wales, the story begins with elderly farmer Gwynne Owen purchasing a jet-black dog, which had recently been imported from the Black Forest in Germany. The Gunn’s own the next farm up where the farmer's wife Margaret is conducting a lustful affair with arrogant reporter and part-time stalker, Gordon Hall. Meanwhile over at the Jones' farm young hired hand and full-time lothario Peter Pike has got the hots for the Jones' sexy niece Jennifer Hughes. Against this background sheep are turning up mutilated and eaten and some of the old villagers believe this to be the works of the long-dead "black dogs". When a young woman is killed in horrific fashion a team from Scotland Yard is called in and they come to a surprising conclusion – a savage, blood-crazed werewolf is on the loose. Smith holds nothing back in this tale – it is incredibly violent and gore-drenched and spiced throughout with seedy sex. The story lopes along at an unrelenting pace with Smith dispensing with any pretence at formal characterisation, personality or emotion and simply piles one fantastic incident on top of the next in an unrelentingly linear fashion – this gives the story an almost documentary feel in places. The sexual politics in the story are positively Stone Age, with the only function of the female characters being objects of lust. Some of the dialogue is incredibly funny (whether deliberate or not it's hard to tell) and some of the changes into the werewolf's perspective are nicely done. Unfortunately the end of the story is pretty rushed and although satisfying enough it is disappointing in comparison to what has gone before. "Werewolf by Moonlight" is a hugely effective little pulp shocker full of both grisly incident and over-the-top sex. Smith's writing style is cleverly straightforward, which ensure he keeps the pace fast and the reader totally involved from beginning to end. A hugely enjoyable slice of gory pulpy horror and interesting the only Smith novel to be published by Guy Smith rather than Guy N. Smith ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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