The storyline doesn't really present anything new but is told in a way that kept me wanting to know what the ending was going to be like. Your run of the mill horror novel with just enough creepiness and gore to keep it interesting. Remember those movies? Not very well done, but just creepy enough to keep your attention, and maybe scare your girlfriend enough to latch on to your arm a little tighter?ĭeathday had the same kind of vibe. Sitting in your car, watching those campy horror movies until the wee hours of the morning, and then having to face the scary drive home. (You younger folks can google that to see what a drive-in was). Reading this book took me back to my younger days when I would spend weekend nights at the drive-in theatre. For wherever the amulet is found, ancient evil - hideous, decadent, powerful, and vile - is once again reborn. That night, the village of Medford is plunged into a maelstrom of terror by the discovery of a double murder and mutilation, the first in a series of grisly killings to come. Now, in a desolate graveyard, a workman has unearthed the amulet by chance and elects to keep it. Imagine cops without guns! 3.5 sleazy stars, rounding up as this really was a lot of fun to read.įour hundred years ago, a woman died in agony to keep its secret and went to her grave with it hung around her neck. My favorite part of the book is when the chief of police has to go begging to his district commander to get some guns and then having to teach the local cops how to shoot. Toss in some good ole black magic and some zombie like things and this one gets bloody quick. Hutson knows how to move a story along and this is a page turner for sure. The guy who picks it up? Well lets just say things do not go well.Īs par for the course for 80s trash horror, Deathday features numerous sleazy sex scenes and lots and lots of blood and gore. One day some workers cleaning up a field next to a cemetery uncover an old grave and in it they find a medallion on an old skeleton. I will not go into much detail on the plot, full of holes as it is, but Deathday is set in a small town in England and features the head of police as its main protagonist. She is brutally killed and then the real story starts. The prologue features some torture porn circa 1596 on a witch of sorts, with her inquisitors asking about a medallion and her master. I thought it would be something of a ripoff of The Amulet, which was first published in 1979, but outside of both books using a medallion as something evil, there is nothing similar. Hutson's books are always quick reads and this is no exception. Good trashy horror by Hutson Shaun I think he used the Nevile pseudonym for this book only.
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