And somehow, despite the amount of time spent on our main three characters, I never really felt I got to know them. I can say that despite the fact that it is quite well paced, there are moments that still seem to drag. It's a fantastic time capsule for the urban decay that was New York City in the 70s and 80s. It's got a little romance, a little gore, a little thrills. Monteleone, who is a two-time Stoker Award winner, prolific novelist, author of the brilliant short story collection 'Fearful Symmetries,' and editor of one of the best horror compilations 'Borderlands.' The novel itself has something in it for everyone.

First of all, it was written by Thomas F. 'The story is irresistible, moving to a mighty climax.'Night Train' is a kind of homage to Fritz Leiber's 'Our Lady of Darkness.' But while the latter book remains in my top ten favorite horror novels of all time, I fear that 'Night Train' will be largely forgettable.Ĭonsidered a classic among the paperback horror boom of the 70s through the 90s, this 1984 urban thriller has a lot going for it. 'A vastly entertaining novel of horror and suspense difficult questions about the nature of man, God and the devil.' - Los Angeles Daily News

Paul Wilson, author of The Keep and Deep as the Marrow 'Monteleone has a dark imagination, a wicked pen, and the rare ability to convey an evil chill with words.' -Dean Koontz, New York Times–bestselling author What's beneath their feet will shock and horrify till the last blaring warning of lost Train 93. In Night Train, the urban decay of 80s-era New York City meets hordes of feral cats, a Subway Slasher, the occult, and an underground labyrinth full of primeval and modern monsters that threaten to swallow whole a four-hundred-year-old city and its inhabitants. In the bedrock beneath New York, beautiful news reporter Lya Marsden and hard-bitten detective Michael Corvino enter an eerie maze of abandoned tunnels, searching for a train that vanished with all aboard-over half a century ago.īut under the concrete maze of skyscrapers and tourists, below the peep shows and the penthouses, within the clammy darkness, and around the next turn-an unholy evil waits to disgorge violence and blood. to be met by an unlikely troupe ready to save the lives and soul of their city. Under the subways' roar, out of the deep, wet caves, comes the fury from Hell.

All aboard-and highly recommended!' - Dark Bites 'An epic novel with enough terrifying adventure to accommodate at least a few sleepless nights.

Night Train by Thomas F. Monteleone