I will never read another Saul book if I can help it. You know the entire plot from about p. 5. The writing was repetitive, overlong, the opposite of suspenseful. What King can do in a few words Saul needs and always takes three papargraphs to describe. He recycles blurbs about people feeling apprehension, terror, unease. It is so plodding as to be maddening. Completely predictable. I couldn't wait to finish & get rid of it. Especially annoying was his overuse of "as well." No wonder he has written so many books. They take very little effort.They must all be the same but I'm not going to confirm that.

this is the first John Saul book I read
I loved it so much I started reading all his books.

A solid read. I really REALLY loved the first half, when you're introduced to the characters, the events begin to unfold....and you step into the Rockwell, a strange building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Midnight Voices door John Saul

IT was ok. When Carolyn's husband dies and she moves her two kids to Rockwell, eerie occurrences abound.


This novel is deeply creepy right from the outset, opening with the brutal murder of its protagonist Caroline's husband in Central Park. Six months after that trauma, Caroline is struggling to make ends meet and to take care of her two children. Then she meets Tony. He seems the perfect gentleman, and she marries him after a long-enough courtship. When she and the children move in with him in the exclusive Rockwell building, she at first dismisses the stories she hears--the Rockwell's inhabitants are actually witches and vampires--as just so many urban legends. Then her daughter starts hearing voices in the walls at night, and Rebecca, the only other child in the building, who is already mysteriously ill, disappears. When her daughter falls ill with symptoms
remarkably similar to Rebecca's, Caroline realizes she can no longer dismiss her aged neighbors as eccentric but basically harmless. Saul's handling of an old horror conceit conjures all the nail-biting tension of successful suspense, and the ritzy Central Park West setting he chooses makes everything even creepier (tip of the hat to Rosemary's Baby, perhaps?).

Creepy! My first book I ever read by John Saul and I believe this iis the book that got me into him! I highly reccomend it!

Good horror story without being too graphic. The part with Ryan trying to escape had me on the edge of my seat.

(Just in case, SPOILERS) Good characters and story. The anti Cocoon about really really old people staying young and alive not of alien cocoon life force but 2 kids with certain ages life forces. Those really really old people are really "The walking Dead" for real if those kids didn't exist. Also at the end seems like the 10 year old boy becomes the William Shatner Capt Kirk character and saves his mother from being totally committed to a insane aslyum. Also has some influence from the movie, Dead And Buried (1981) also.

This wasn't my favorite John Saul book, but it was good enough to keep me reading.

Read 10/17..another book,so many,from basement.cleaning out attic.

This is the perfect example of why John Saul has been and will always be one of my 2 favorite horror authors of all time along with Robert R. McCammon and Michael McDowell! This novel STILL after 20 plus years creeps the hell out of me and makes me leary about Central Park and Manhattan!!

Carolyn Evans lives the beautiful and almost perfect life in New York; two beautiful children a boy and girl, ages 10 and 12, and has a successful and handsome husband, that is until he is murdered while running in Central Park. Now she is alone and struggling to pay rent and raise the kids on her own.

Then one day while in the park she meets Anthony Fleming, and another odd elderly woman who turns her life around. After falling in love and remarrying, she moves into the Rockwell building in Manhattan's Central Park West and life as she knows it will never be the same!! Get ready to experience John Saul's "Midnigt Voices" and get ready for nightmares! Saul takes the genres of terror of a new home, Voices and horrors in the night, and even what I guess you could call Vampires and demons, and makes you look at them in a way you have never done before.

When her kids 12 year old Laurie and 10 year old Ryan start having nightmares, hearing voices and things in the walls, Carolyn starts looking at life in the Rockwell in a different light. Are the things really happening that the kids are telling her about or is this their way of getting back for her getting remarried so soon after they lose their Dad?. When their mother takes up a job at an Antiques store and is thrilled, but when she meets elderly and very strange Irene at the park and as a client, this is when her life goes to hell in a handbasket. Her best friend Andrea is a social worker and one of her foster kids is adopted by a couple who lives in the Rockwell. When she is suddenly sick with s mysterious illness Andrea makes Caroline realize that something is going on in the building that involves all the tenants, and it is the most creepy and disturbing thing you will ever imagine. The book is one of Sauls most disturbing in my opinion, and it is one of his best that did not involve fucked up and evil kids or a past of 100 years ago, and he really makes the fear come at you very fast!

Some readers compared this as a 'Rosemary's Baby' rip off, I never thought of it that way, however there are some scenes that will make you think of that book but this was so much more terrifying than 'Baby' and this was actually gruesomely scary and very thought provoking. I have read this more than twice and this is the first time I listened to it....and it was INCREDIBLY WELL DONE! The scenes of death, disemboweling and gore are unlike ones that Saul has written before. I have been to Central Park before, and now it makes me only want to go again, to see if there is really a building that could be harboring the horrors of The Rockwell. LOVED this book and would recommend this to anyone who wants to be creeped out about where they live, and what could possibly be living in the walls.

5

This is like Lock Every Door!