Creepers

Ok. Where do I Start? This is the first review I've ever done so please bear with me. The reason I decided to write this review was because the other reviews didn't really tell me about the story, outside of it being about cannibals and being set in the subway. Because of that I was reluctant to buy the book. I did anyway, I figured if it was bad I would throw it I the trash, it was only like $.70. After reading it I was a little disappointed with the ending. The book itself was pretty good. It remided me of the movie I AM LEGEND with Will Smith. Anyway the other reviews left some details out.... Spoil alert...... There were three main characters. Detective Frank Corelli, Willie Hoyle and Louise Hill. Detective Frank Corelli is a transit officer who gets wind of peolpe who disappear in the subway and decides to investigate. Willie Hoyle is a street smart kid who decides he is not going to let poverty keep him down. He decides to form a group of young men who watch out for people, like his mom who is a single mother, on the subway. Then theres Louise Hill who's seven year old daughter is snatched by the creepes. Helping Louise find her daughter, detective Corelli falls in love with Louise and she falls for him. Willie, all his love goes to his mom and keeping her safe plus he watches out for the people in the subway and those who help him do that. Willie is a honorable character. The other two characters are also interesting. Louise is determined to find her daughter and puts her life on the line by going into the subway to save her only child. Corelli puts his life on the to save her and Willie puts hi on the line to save Corelli. By this point in the book Willie feels he is one of his men and he refused to lose another, one of them was eaten by the creepers. This is where I was let down. Louise gets caught and the alpha male likes her so they don't kill her. She is put in a room with her daughter who they think is dead but she actually unconscious. Corelli looks for her finds her but gets caught himself. Willie eventually finds them and has to fight off five creepers buy himself. Which he does but not before one takes a chunk out of his leg and another takes a chunk out of his shoulder. He starts to untie Corelli and is attacked by the Alpha male. Which, after a battle, Willie breaks his neck. He's bleeding badly and isn't thinking clearly anymore, but he unties the captives. Willie not being in good shape can't help Corelli get them out so he has to do it buy himself. After they get a ways up the tunnel willie can't go any further and tells them to keep going and send someone for him. Corelli doesn't want to do that but louise talks him into it. They make it out alive: Corelli, Louise and her daughter but when officers are sent back for Willie they can't find him. I won't say what exactly happend to the all of the creepers but I will say this, anyone bitten by a creeper either died from the virus or depending on how strong they were becam

This is one of my favorite horror novels and one of the few I've read more than once (I also bought an extra copy in case I lose my original, as Creepers is long out of print). The "creepers" are the degenerate decendants of bums trapped in the subway who devolve over one hundred years of living underground into cannibalistic killers, snatching victims off the subway platforms in the middle of the night. Some are used for food, while the females are kidnapped for breeding stock... the creeper DNA is so messed up that they need outsiders to mate with to continue their race. However, they also possess a diseased bite that eventually transforms those bitten into creepers themselves! A NY subway cop investigates the mysterious disappearances, only to discover the awful truth! A superior, gory chiller that effectively blends ghoulish elements of H.P. Lovecraft and H.G. Wells (think of the morlocks from "The Time Machine"). Also a great read if you're a fan of subway mutant films like Raw Meat, C.H.U.D., or just zombies in general. Author Robert Craig delivers a compulsive page turner. Buy it!

I thought this was a damn scary book. The suspense was fair, the gore was gut-churning, and the characters were well introduced. There was a little too much of man-looking-at-woman's-body-and-vice-versa going on, and the suspense was rather low, despite the ocassional action scenes. All in all, it was a scary book. I love books like this, ones that deal with monsters in the subway. I have never used the subway in New York before, and now I never want to...