Books by Whitley Strieber and Complete Book Reviews

Whitley Strieber, Author Tor Books $17.95 (441p) ISBN 978-0-312-93112-4
Barry, a practicing witch, has collaborated with well-known SF and horror writer Strieber in this very uneven novel. In a sense the book is a spokespiece for witchcraftand is most interesting as suchnot black magic witchcraft, but the ancient wisdom
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Whitley Strieber. Tor, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7869-9
An unthinkable crime—the murder of an aide in the middle of the day at the White House—catalyzes the plot of Strieber’s unwieldy third Alien Hunter novel (after Alien Hunter: Underworld). Steel-willed operative Flynn Carroll reprises his role as an...
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Whitley Strieber. Tor, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3154-0
Flynn Carroll, a Texas cop assigned to an ultra-secret government group combatting rogue aliens from the planet Aeon, has a series of murders to solve in Strieber’s gory, workmanlike sequel to 2013’s Alien Hunter. The victims had all been derelicts...
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Whitley Strieber. Tor, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3153-3
Bestseller Strieber (Hybrids) uneasily mixes extraterrestrials and crime in this first in a new thriller series, which opens on a strong note with a terrifying and moving scene. Soon after midnight on November 16, 2002, police detective Errol “Flynn”
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Whitley Strieber. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9327-8
Twilight meets Tarzan in a Los Angeles high-rise in adult author Strieber’s (Communion) disappointing YA debut. After his father is murdered, a boy hides from the killer in an apartment building that is still under construction; he never leaves,...
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Whitley Strieber, Tor, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2376-7
Strieber, well-known for both horror (The Omega Point) and nonfiction about alien encounters (Communion), deals with the consequences of abandoned alien technology in this vapid thriller. Complex biomechanical hybrids, made with alien gene-splicing...
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Whitley Strieber, Author Dutton Books $21 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-93683-1
A dedication to H. P. Lovecraft opens Strieber's ( Unholy Fire ) latest tale, paving the way for fantastical and grisly visions. In fact, Strieber borrows liberally from his malignant muse, adapting that author's concept of a monstrous alternate...
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Whitley Strieber, Author Signet Book $5.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-17496-3
Weak and whining priests fight off a chillingly omnipotent demon in Strieber's often moronic tale of Satanic possession in New York City. (Feb.)
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Whitley Strieber, Author Dutton Books $21 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-93415-8
The plot of this tale of satanic possession is an unholy mix of the moronic and the divine. Strieber ( Communion ; Wolfen ) endows his demon with a chilling omnipotence, the personality of the Joker from Batman and a fondness for the flammable. His...
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Whitley Strieber, Author Berkley Trade Pub $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-12955-5
Twelve-year-old Billy Neary is abducted from an Iowa mall and driven toward L.A. by violent, 40-ish Barton Royal, a man obsessed with pubescent boys. This is ``by turns gripping, plodding, truly horrifying and, finally, falsely sunny,'' said PW . (Oc
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Whitley Strieber, Author Berkley Trade Pub $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-12295-2
Strieber, author of Communion and Transformation , continues to write on the implications of UFO sightings in this novel, a blend of fact and fiction. Working on a tip from an ex-CIA agent, reporter Nicholas Duke investigates a decades-long cover-up
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Whitley Strieber, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-399-13584-2
Strieber's latest (after Communion ) is by turns gripping, plodding, truly horrifying and, finally, falsely sunny. Fat, 40-ish Barton Royal, kiddy-clown in an L.A. bookstore, is obsessed with pubescent boys. He wants to be their ``father'' but when...
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Whitley Strieber, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-399-13469-2
Strieber, author of Communion and Transformation , continues to write on the implications of UFO sightings in his new novel, a blend of fact and fiction. In 1989, ex-CIA agent Wilfred Stone entrusts his story and secret papers on a decades-long...
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Whitley Strieber, Author . Pocket $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1720-4
Most readers know Strieber for his bestselling books about his alleged contacts with aliens (Communion, etc.). Yet before he met the saucerians, Strieber wrote immensely popular horror novels, some of them filmed (as was Communion—which,...
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Whitley Strieber, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3102-6
Most readers know Strieber for his bestselling books about his alleged contacts with aliens (Communion, etc.). Yet before he met the saucerians, Strieber wrote immensely popular horror novels, some of them filmed (as was Communion which,...
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Whitley Strieber, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-018731-6
With this new volume of recovered memories and apocalyptic predictions, Strieber continues the journey he began with Communion, his extraordinarily successful account of alien abduction. While that book was largely about his experiences with ""the...
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Whitley Strieber, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (297p) ISBN 978-0-06-017653-2
Bestselling UFO author and horror novelist Strieber (Communion, Transformation) here recounts his purported ongoing series of alien contacts over the past few years. Abducted in 1987 from his upstate New York cabin by a ``visitor,'' Strieber is...
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Whitley Strieber, Author Onyx Books $5.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-40487-9
The favorite picnic spot of a small New York town is possessed by an inscrutable evil spirit; a Literary Guild selection. (May)
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Whitley Strieber, Author Warner Books $0 (418p) ISBN 978-0-446-51344-9
Carr's (The Return of the Gypsy sizable audience will be satisfied by her newest historical romance. As young Victoria is crowned in London, Annora Cadorson lives in lore-ridden romantic Cornwall. From the ancient manor of Cador, Annora witnesses...
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Whitley Strieber, Author Tor 24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2334-7
The solar system’s entry in 2020 into a supernova’s atmosphere threatens the future of life on Earth in Strieber’s over-the-top sequel to 2012: The War for Souls. On arrival at West Virginia’s Acton Clinic, Dr. David Ford, the clinic’s new chief...
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Whitley Strieber, Author . Forge $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2253-1
In this overheated thriller about nuclear terrorism from bestseller Strieber (2012: The War for Souls ), Jim Deutsch, a CIA contract employee whose expertise is counterproliferation, has the world's fate in his hands as he races to foil the...
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Strieber's epic sequel to 2006's The Grays blends equal parts science fiction thriller, supernatural horror and provocative spiritual speculation. As struggling author Wylie Dale works on his latest novel, which revolves around an...
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Whitley Strieber, Author . Tor $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1389-8
Fact into fiction? In bestseller Strieber's engrossing SF thriller, which draws heavily from Communion (1987), the author's controversial account of his personal contact with aliens, Danny and Katelyn Callaghan are a happily married couple...
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Whitley Strieber, Author . S&S/Atria $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5152-9
Strieber's third, rambunctious novel in the vampire series he began with The Hunger in 1980 and continued in last year's Last Vampire introduces a new female bloodsucker to replace Miriam Blaylock (vanquished in The Last Vampire). She's
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Whitley Strieber, Author, Whitley Stieber, Author St. Martin's Press $20.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-18557-2
Are they mass hallucinations or have a quarter of a million people experienced a paralyzing possession of their bodies by aliens? Most alleged abductees suffer from severe post-encounter trauma, and Strieber writes that, for them, ""to ignore the...
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Whitley Strieber, Author, Stephen Lang, Read by MacMillan Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-934-8
Vocally, Lang and Vincent Price have a lot in common. While Price reveled in the spooky and sinister, Lang, though he packs a similar, possibly more extensive arsenal, does not hyperbolize, instead using his creep factor to corral the listener into...
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