I don't read John Saul for high quality literature - it's easy, sometimes entertaining thriller junk food. This was a Little Library find and I'm glad I didn't pay the $3.99 sticker price for it. The story is very dated, like early 1980s dated, so that may have impacted my experience. The story is incredibly predictable from the beginning and most of the characters are horrible people. There are a number of plot holes and concepts that get completely glazed over. Will not be reading this one again.

John Saul's early novels are characterized by archaic, Biblical-sounding titles with pictures of people with weird blank eyes.

When I searched for John Saul, the first FIRST book on the list is by Dean Koontz. Ah, John Saul, did you want to be Dean Koontz as well as Stephen King? Well, I suppose since you would never be Stephen King, and Dean Koontz for a while was a second-rate Stephen King, then we are left with John Saul, who is the bargain-basement Stephen King.

1st Read: January 6, 1997 - January 15, 1997
This didn't really grab me like some books tend to do. It wasn't a bad story in the least, in fact it was good to a point. The predictable ending arrived many, many pages before the story had reached a pinnacle of some plot twist to develop. Boo!

2nd Read: January 4, 2013 - January 6, 2013
Still a good story to a point. I have seen movies very similar to this book. However, I don't feel this is good enough to keep unless a value of some kind can be achieved. It was destined for Value Village the first time around!

Saul doesn't pull any punches in this old school horror yarn. As ususal the supernatural is low key, a mencaing undercurrent, whilst the actions of the central charatcers are the keystones of this pageturner. The fractured family and little-girl-lost approach were far fresher back when this was written, however it plats out better than many of today's similar stories.

The writing is a little clumsy for Saul, the stalling in the middle parts distracting, however the final fifth made this one of his more memorable tales.

Saul outdid himself with this book. So spooky!

Çok zayıf bir plot ve ana temanın evveliyatı üstün körü geçiştirilmiş.
Karakterler fazla yüzeysel ve eylem motivasyonları mantıksız.
Daha önce okuduğum John Saul kitabı (Suffer The Children) biraz daha iyiydi.
Bütün bu acemilikler muhtemelen yazarın ilk dönem yapıtlarından olmasıyla ilgilidir.
Türü sevseniz bile pas geçmenizi öneririm. Tamamen zaman kaybı.

Classic Saul, or so I would guess, since it is the fourth book in his long list of hits. I read this one, again at the urging of my wife, and found it too be a solid entry in the horror genre. Classic trauma, causing angry spirit, angry spirit finds sympathetic ear, and the proverbial shit hits the proverbial fan. A decent read.

Dnf at 50%. Dated and slow. I used to love John Saul in high school!

If you want to be truly scared out of your mind.. Read books by this author. This is horror done well.

In the 1800s (quick, I'm having a Hellfire flashback), a young blind girl used to walk along the cliffs of Paradise Point. One day, a group of children start teasing her until she falls over the cliff. A decade later, a couple and their adopted daughter, Michelle, move into the house that the blind girl, Amanda, used to live in. Michelle is injured and becomes cripple, leading to the town children taunting her. Amanda wants revenge and soon starts using Michelle as her "eyes" to end the laughter.

His books don't take too much thinking and they're not perplexing. He has an irritating way of making the last climatic scenes rushed, but he knows how to keep you enthralled. Even if you don't find his horror very "horror-full", you do want to find out what happens next because he can weave a story.

Saul's early horror is scholocky, but I enjoy it. It's cheesy, cliched, overdramatic, everything a B horror movie is.

Another 5 star novel from John Saul for me. For many, he's the poor man's Stephen King as his writing is mostly story/plot, characters, and mystery, but he amps up the horror atmosphere and the creepiness factor to 11. To me, he's way better than King in just "going for it" in horror. To think this book was written in 1980. Wow! Comes the Blind Fury is his fourth novel, and coincidentally is the fourth Saul novel I've read. (The others are 1977's Suffer the Children, 1985's Brainchild, and 2001's The Manhattan Hunt Club. All excellent!) As with extreme horror author Richard Laymon, I plan to read John Saul's entire bibliography in time. Like Suffer the Children, Saul's debut, a gothicly haunted family past, a small seaside town, and children are the focus. There's nothing creepier than an evil child - especially the primary one here, Michelle, who doesn't even realize she's evil because she has a helper, a manifestation ("ghost" is too tame of a word) named Amanda (Mandy). Saul turns the crank slowly during the story's events, revealing a little at a time, in a mystery that envelopes you and never falters. Sure, some of his writing and the reactions of the characters are a little stilted and unnatural, but all is forgiven as he is a master storyteller as far as I'm concerned. Better than Stephen King, of whom I've read about 20 novels. King has said in interviews he doesn't like to outline, and it shows in many of his novels where the style is brilliantly written but meanders all over the place as he doesn't really know where his story is going but eventually gets to the end. It's clear that Saul meticulously outlines, has definite beats and reveals, and cranks up the terror by the end as other characters catch up to the horror that is really happening. Super quick read which I really appreciate too! Sadly, John Saul retired after he published 2009's House of Reckoning, but he has written about 35 novels, so can't wait to work my way through his entire oeuvre. Brilliant writer!

I remember being in 7th grade when I first picked this book off the school library shelf to read. It was a scary book to me at the time but it started my love of reading. I took it along with me on a 2 day trip recently and finished it. It's a quick read but kept my interest.
Michelle and her family move to Paradise Point, MA from Boston. Her dad is the new town Dr and they move into the old Dr's house on the bluff, 100 years prior there was a blind girl that was killed. She has come back for her vengeance. Book is dated (1980's) but still enjoyable!