OK horror fiends who can help out here?
1. Sci-fi/horror novel about insect aliens taking over a town, people getting body-horror mutations, place gets quarantined by the government, turns out the aliens are harvesting psychic energy to power their spaceship. Pretty standard for the genre I guess. Must have been from the '80s (maybe early '90s), the cover art showed human faces cracking open with insectoid features emerging, the title was one of those unpronounceable sci-fi words that's all Xs, Ys, and Zs. Found! It's:
2. When I was a kid my grandma had a copy of a paperback that freaked me out enough I threw it behind the basement steps. And then when she caught me I made her throw it away. I remember the cover as being artwork of a dead looking bride soaked from head to toe in blood. (I've thought about it being Carrie and mixing a prom dress and wedding dress up, but I've never found a Carrie paperback that looks like my memory.) This all took place probably around 1988 to 1991.
3. The title I remember as The Secret (I think) and had a silver quasi-swastika on its cover. Found! It's:
1 sounds like it might be Xan by Patrick Tilley. The first British paperback has the cover you describe.
ReplyDeleteI think it is! Fantastic! Guess my memory exaggerated the title's spelling. Kind of surprised to find it's by an author I was already familiar with - odd I didn't realise at the time.
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ReplyDelete2. Carrie
ReplyDelete3. The Secret
If number two is not Carrie - I would guess had to be a Zebra book - couldn't find an exact match but sometimes as kids we tend to mix things up in our heads so could possibly be:
ReplyDelete-Caly by Sharon Combes - great skull bride cover but no blood :(
-Lost and Found by Ruby Jean Jensen - has a girl/woman in white gown with some blood and bloody dagger
Number 2 might be Kiss Not The Child by John Tigges. Just the face of a bride with a bloody knife bisecting her flesh face with a skeletal face.
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