I don't know how many people have read the Night Warrior series by Masterton, but i can tell you it kicks all forms of ass. I think this should be made into a motion picture or motion picture series. This would be a better choice than the crapfest that was Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
It's about a male/female Angel type thing, who recruits ordinary people on behalf of Ashapola (what we think of as God) to become night warriors to do battle with Yaomauitl (What we think of as the Devil) and the spawns Yaomauitl.
These people are normal in the waking world, but in the dream world they are like superheroes.
There are four books. Night Warriors (1986), Death Dream (1988), Night Plague (1991) and Night Wars (2007)
I have not gotten around to reading the new one Night Wars (the only one still in print) yet, because I'm still reading Night Plague. I can tell you from what I have read it is ****ing great. I hope Night Wars lives up to the other three.
I hade trouble finding these books on Ebay, so I joined http://www.abebooks.com/ and this is the best out of print book finding service on the net.
Exerpt from a Graham Masterton interview, talking about the NW series.
Interviewer: In the Night Warriors trilogy you experimented in an interesting way in a strange mixture of horror, fantasy and science fiction, which could almost be comic book but for the very dark core running through the heart of the stories. It certainly seemed quite a departure (though Night Warriors was the first of your novels I read). What prompted you to try this experiment?
Masterton: I have always been interested and attracted to the world of comic books, but in some ways I find them limiting because they are only as good as the artist who draws them. In NIGHT WARRIORS I wanted to create a comic book type world in which there were no artistic limits…in which everything was possible, because it was happening inside the reader's head instead of on the page. Comic books present some fascinating challenges, but it is difficult for them to compete with the multiple special effects on which a writer of prose can draw: sound, smell, feeling and sight. If you like,NIGHT WARRIORS was as near as I have ever come to producing a comic book, and I except that it always will be.
http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sweetdespise/masterton/apr99.html
It's about a male/female Angel type thing, who recruits ordinary people on behalf of Ashapola (what we think of as God) to become night warriors to do battle with Yaomauitl (What we think of as the Devil) and the spawns Yaomauitl.
These people are normal in the waking world, but in the dream world they are like superheroes.
There are four books. Night Warriors (1986), Death Dream (1988), Night Plague (1991) and Night Wars (2007)
I have not gotten around to reading the new one Night Wars (the only one still in print) yet, because I'm still reading Night Plague. I can tell you from what I have read it is ****ing great. I hope Night Wars lives up to the other three.
I hade trouble finding these books on Ebay, so I joined http://www.abebooks.com/ and this is the best out of print book finding service on the net.
Exerpt from a Graham Masterton interview, talking about the NW series.
Interviewer: In the Night Warriors trilogy you experimented in an interesting way in a strange mixture of horror, fantasy and science fiction, which could almost be comic book but for the very dark core running through the heart of the stories. It certainly seemed quite a departure (though Night Warriors was the first of your novels I read). What prompted you to try this experiment?
Masterton: I have always been interested and attracted to the world of comic books, but in some ways I find them limiting because they are only as good as the artist who draws them. In NIGHT WARRIORS I wanted to create a comic book type world in which there were no artistic limits…in which everything was possible, because it was happening inside the reader's head instead of on the page. Comic books present some fascinating challenges, but it is difficult for them to compete with the multiple special effects on which a writer of prose can draw: sound, smell, feeling and sight. If you like,NIGHT WARRIORS was as near as I have ever come to producing a comic book, and I except that it always will be.
http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sweetdespise/masterton/apr99.html
