The Forbidden Zone

By Whitley Strieber

Book Overview

Every town has a place like the mound--where lovers meet and families go to picnic or sleigh-ride. For Oscola, New York, the mound has become a place of terror--where an evil force preys on the minds of all who dare enter--The Forbidden Zone. Whitley Strieber is world-famous for Communion, his phenomenally bestselling book on extraterrestrial experience.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451404874
• ISBN13: 9780451404879
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Onyx Books
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 4.5" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

A great bug book!

I love bug books. Spiders, ants, and other creepy-crawlies thrill me. In fiction. I'm not insane. But every now and again, I pick up something that turns into an excellent bug book and this is one of them. (FP Wilson's Nightworld is another.) This one involves alien-like bugs, is action driven, from the very first page, and never lets up. I cannot understand how another reviewer said there was no story or plot. It's a standard one, but very well handled. A couple of things didn't mesh (continuity errors) but they weren't glaring, as some authors' are. One of the best books I've read this year.

AN OVER THE TOP MONSTER MASH, AND I LOVED IT!!!

Forget all the bad reviews here. They are from people who obviously do not like to have fun and pretend to enjoy Peter Straub....This novel is a mix of Lovecraft (it's dedicated to him), Machen, John Carpenter's The Thing, Mimic, Swarm, Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers....Strieber throws it all into the mix and creates a ballsy, relentless horror novel thats just too damn fun!

Winner in the H.P. Lovecraft style

A small town becomes the center for invasion of hideous creatures, arriving from another dimension. Whitley Strieber pays superb and creepy tribute to H.P. Lovecraft. This is one of those books where you know the characters are caught up in something so sinister and evil that it's an almost no win situation. Very creepy, very dark, very Lovecraft-like. A perfect blend of horror.

Silly monster novel entertains

This book has more in common with John Carpenter's version of The Thing than it does with H.P. Lovecraft's classic mythos stories. Some strange creature zaps people with a hypnotic light and takes over their bodies, turning them into shape shifting things. The handful of survivors try to escape a world that is being rapidly invaded and changed. Action packed and fun on its own terms, nonetheless the novel suffers from a certain lack of depth.

Incredible!

I can't believe the low ratings this book is getting. This is one of Strieber's best books, and it is definetly one of the best horror stories out there. I guess I enjoyed the book more because I didn't know anything about the book at all when I started reading Chapter 1. This book is great, but try not to know the whole summary of the book before you pick it up cause that'll spoil it.