Agent-c/o Joel Gotler, IPGLM, 9200 Sunset Blvd., Ste. I’m not going to rush out to read more Skipp and Spector collaborations, but I’m definitely not going to write off the ones I already have on my shelf/kindle.PERSONAL: Born 1957, in Milwaukee, WI married children: Melanie.ĪDDRESSES: Home-Hollywood, CA. Yeah, there’s still too many characters, but this one has a more focused story line.

I had previously read Skipp and Spector’s The Scream, and I reckon that The Light at the End is actually a better book. It’s pretty much exactly what I was looking for. However, I think I already mentioned that I only read this because I needed something easy to digest before bed, and I have to admit, this did the trick. This book reads like it was written for 1980s teenagers. This book was written in the 80s though, and it ultimately depicts the gay characters as likeable, useful members of society, so I don’t think it’s time to retroactively cancel Skipp and Spector. He’s not integral to the plot and clearly only included for comic relief, and this made the playful abuse he suffers a bit uncomfortable to read. The guy who is getting made fun of is one of the good guys, and everyone actually likes him, but he is repeatedly called a faggot by his coworkers. (There’s a section in which one of the characters paraphrases a scene in The Shining.) I think that I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if I had been younger when I was reading it.Īlso, while I’m sure that the authors did not intend this book to be homophobic, there’s something about the nonchalant way that the characters make fun of their gay friend that will probably rub a lot of modern readers the wrong way. There’s lots of violence and dated/cringey pop culture references. Otherwise, this was pretty much what I expected vampires in New York. I was a bit annoyed when I realised this, but I was already invested, so I plowed through. Paper copies of this book run to almost 400 pages. The splatterpunk I’ve read has all been pretty straight forward, so this seemed like a good choice.įirst off, it’s not short. Also, I knew that this book is often heralded as the first splatterpunk novel. Part of the reason I chose this one was that I thought it was a short novel, maybe 180 pages.

I flicked through my kindle and settled on The Light at the End by John Skipp and Craig Spector. I needed something a little less demanding. I like Ligotti, but he’s not easy reading. I read the first paragraph about 3 times then gave up. Last Thursday, I was sitting in bed after a stressful day’s work, trying to read a dense Thomas Ligotti story. The Light at the End – John Skipp and Craig Spector

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