Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2968335 in Books
• Published on: 1986-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Horror with a high body count
The young, the old, the infirm... Stephen Laws doesn't doesn't think politically when he's killing people in a myriad of gruesome ways. Ghost Train is old school horror, with possession, demonic forces, a mystery to be solved and a finale of good versus evil against all odds. What lets Ghost Train down is the real lack of substance. Although Laws has attempted to weave considerable mystery in to the plot, the evil 'train' just doesn't have any character and as a result there is a not enough engagement. The key components are there but the writing isn't good enough to make it a memorable book. Suitable for an easy read but not Laws at his best.

Ghost Train
Running along similar lines (no pun intended) as Bill Garnett's "Down-Bound Train" this marvellous book actually personifies the hell portrayed in Garnett's superb shocker. One man has faced this hell and escaped three times but the creature is preparing to free itself totally from the King's Cross Line where it is trapped. The pace is fantastic, building to a spellbinding climax and the real truth of one man's nightmares about The Ghost Train.

Fast and Furious Horror
This was my introduction to Laws, and led me to seek out everything he has written.

It's all based on a great premise... that the main East Coast rail line from London to the North of England is on a ley line that can channel power to the London End, with a view to waking an ancient demon.

Strange deaths abound on the line. Our protagonist, himself a survivor of a strange experience on a train, has to try to stop the energy building up.

The climax is a tour-de-force as the train hurtles to London, the demon grows ever more powerful, and the deaths pile up.

Laws has a wild imagination, and he likes to kill people in very gruesome fashions, but if, like me, you like your horror fast and action packed, then he's the man for you.