Gregory Lamberson's Web Site | Hellnotes Review/<title> <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#63F016"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="keywords" content="scripts, script writer, slimeguy, slime city, personal demons, new york vampire, naked fear, undying love, cinema, horror movies, Hellnotes, greg lamberson"> <meta name="description" content="slimeguy.com - Hellnotes"> <meta name="robots" content="all"> <meta name="rating" content="general"> <meta name="author" content="Amy Grech"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.slimeguy.com/gruesome.ico"> <style>  </style> </head> <p align=left><font face="georgia" color="#63F016", size="5"><b>A HELLNOTES REVIEW </b></font></p> <p> <p align=left><font face="georgia" color="#63F016", size="3"><b><i>By Chris Welch</b></i></font></p> <p> <p align=left><font face="georgia" color="#63F016", size="3"><b><i>Personal Demons</i> by Gregory Lamberson is a novel with a little bit of everything under the literary sun in it: noir, science-fiction, serial killers, supernatural forces, demons, shoot-outs, ghosts, Biblical portents, police procedurals, and Faustian pacts.</b></font></p> <p> <p align=left><font face="georgia" color="#63F016", size="3"><b>That sounds like a lot of stuff for one novel, quite possibly too much. For some writers, it would be too much. But it is not for Lamberson, who combines all of those elements into one whopper of story that almost any reader will find irresistible. Lamberson's skill is not only in the proper combination of all those genre elements alone. He adds even more to the mix with compelling characters, a multi-layered plot, a crisp writing style, and some literary misdirection for highly-effective surprises and plot twists.</b></font></p> <p> <p align=left><font face="georgia" color="#63F016", size="3"><b><i>Personal Demons</i> takes us into the world of Jake Helman, a closet drug-addict and New York City detective who is the on the hunt for a serial killer called the Cipher. Unbeknownst to any characters yet is that the Cipher does not just take his victims' lives, he takes their souls as well. When an unexpected encounter with some low-life crooks threatens to bring his addiction to light, Helman resigns from the force. While this leads to personal relationship problems with his wife, good luck befalls Helman as wealthy industrialist Nicholas Tower hires him to be his chief of security for Tower's ultra-high-tech headquarters, housed in a New York skyscraper.</b></font></p> <p> <p align=left><font face="georgia" color="#63F016", size="3"><b>Just as he gets his bearings, the building comes under attack and Helman discovers that Tower has some rather unusual projects, which are in some way connected to supernatural forces.</b></font></p> <p> <p align=left><font face="georgia" color="#63F016", size="3"><b>There are many more elements to <i>Personal Demons</i> than described here, but to describe them all would take too long and spoil the surprises. You'll just have to experience those for yourself by reading the book.</b></font></p> <p> <p align=left><font face="georgia" color="#63F016", size="3"><b>[Note: The novel <i>Personal Demons</i> by Greg Lamberson was the Inaugural Winner of the Anubis Award for Horror, as chosen by horror writer T.M. Wright.]</b></font></p> <p> <p align=left><font face="georgia" color="#63F016", size="4"><b><a href="demons.html">GO BACK</b></font></p> <br> </body> </html>