Night of the Damned

by Stephen Bywater

When darkness falls the nightmare begins . . .


It is 1935 and a rubber plantation deep in the Amazon jungle is losing its labourers one by one. Company agent Miller arrives to investigate the mounting number of those disappearing as well as the brutal killing of a fellow agent.

Sightings of a corpselike girl and a man who bears a striking resemblance to the dead agent soon have Miller on edge. And when night falls, and the humid air fills with the stench of rotting flesh, he becomes convinced he's found the nearest thing to hell.

They roam through the darkness, hide in the shadows and shun the daylight. But what are these deathly-looking figures?

As the sun sets over the plantation Miller's terrifying nightmare is about to begin...

Genres: Horror, Zombies

357 pages, Paperback

First published June 18, 2015

Reviews

[Colin Watts]

It was the front cover that drew me to this book and I'm glad I picked it up.
Wonderfully descriptive and creepy, this is a new take on the traditional zombie story.
I really liked the story and found the descriptions of the reanimated dead particularly satisfying.
I still don't know what was in that cave though... But I'm not sure I want to know...

[Emerald Melody]

Really liked this. Beautiful descriptions, not a huge information overload. Only thing that let it down was the ending.

[T.A.]

This book had a vibe of a 1950's horror so much so the images in my head were in black and white! You could feel the humidity coming off the pages due to the evocative writing. Whilst technically it is a zombie book it isn't in the modern sense so only read if you enjoy 1950 style zombie movies such as white zombie.

[HM]

A gripping supernatural thriller set in the Amazon (Fordlandia?). Lovecraft meets Conrad meets Lolita.

[Bhav]

A haunting novel that I couldn't put down.
IT IS AMAZING

[Jon Harrison]

I’m giving this one star as I just haven’t enjoyed it.

I have it the usual 100 pages to see how I got on with it, I have been reading it for about 6 weeks and just not enjoying the story.

It seems to drag its feet continuously , the story never really panning out.

So unfortunately I haven’t finished it.

[Kilgallen]

This was a fun atmospheric read. It does not read like a horror movie script. The zombies in this one were a lot less Hollywood and a lot more Voodoo in their presentation and that made this one stand out for me.

[Emmah]

Too much world building (albeit beautiful writing) and not enough story to address the overlying plot. The only interesting revelation happens in one of the final chapters

[James]

Qualiteeee

[Jen]

DNF