The Forbidden Zone (novel)
novel by Whitley Strieber
The Forbidden Zone is a 1993 science fiction horror novel by American writer Whitley Strieber, about an alien invasion by Lovecraftian monsters of a small American town.
Reception
The reviewer for Kirkus Reviews opined that it is less subtle work than that of H. P. Lovecraft which inspired it, but still is a "genuinely scary [book], with plenty of scattered body parts for gorehound".
The book received several other reviews:
Review by Linda Marotta in Fangoria, August 1993
Review by Don D'Ammassa in Science Fiction Chronicle, no. 166, September 1993
Review by Stefan Dziemianowicz in Crypt of Cthulhu, Hallowmas 1993
Review by Mike Baker in Cemetery Dance, Fall 1993
Review by Martin Brice in Vector, no. 178
Review by Pete Crowther in Interzone, June 1994
Review by Julie Atkin in Vector, no. 180
Review by Izabela Szolc (1998) in Talizman #4-5 1998, p.
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