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SPAWN (A STAR BOOK) Paperback – Import, June 16, 1983

by Shaun Hutson (Author)
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 261 ratings
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The revenge of the unborn. Rescued from their hidden grave beyond the hospital grounds, nurtured on human blood, they grow in darkness. And as they grow, their lethal telepathic powers expand—enslaving, crippling, killing, all who look upon them.

They are the Spawn—Shaun Hutson's latest creation of horror.

Slugs made your flesh creep. Spawn will stop your heart.
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  1. Print length
    287 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Star
  4. Publication date
    June 16, 1983
  5. ISBN-10
    0352313757
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0352313751
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Star; paperback / softback edition (June 16, 1983)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 287 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0352313757
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0352313751
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 261 ratings

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James Glover
5.0 out of 5 stars Holy smokes this was awesome!!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2021
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I had heard about this book and this author and thought I would check it out. Wow am I glad I did!! This book has everything from decapitated murders to people being burned alive to dead fetuses coming back to life! Omg it was awesome!!!! And the ending I did not see coming!! Check this Jen out you will not be disappointed!
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Yorg
4.0 out of 5 stars Down-to-earth with shock
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2013
Shaun Hutson has an outrageous ability to shock and terrify the reader in several sentences. It was one of the most violent, darkly atmospheric, rich in bleak tone with suspense-filled narrative and occasional black humor (sometimes even walking a thin line), relentless books that I've read in many years. Hutson writes in matter-of-a-fact style, his hard-boiled prose very often makes me to remember the dark suspense novels of bygone era.

Highly recommended for readers of "true, down-to-earth" horror.
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Helpful soul
5.0 out of 5 stars I remember
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2006
I read this book when I was 14 at school - roughly 14 years ago now.

The teacher came down to the bottom of the class where I was hunched over this book - I hadn't noticed the room had gone quiet or that he was looming over me until his hand slapped down on the page.

He took it to the front and flicked through a couple of pages and then with a voice of disgust advised that this was not the sort of thing nice people read.

When I got home with my book that night I promised myself I would finish it now just to spite him.

It was utterly terrifying. Aborted featuses, loss of life.

I only read it the once but have always remembered being afraid and I associate this book with my independance, the first time I exercised my will against teacher bullies!
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J. A. F. in Charlotte, NC
3.0 out of 5 stars Meh...
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2014
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Pretty good book. Kept me reading and I didn't get bored, but there was just something about it that gave me kind of a, I guess you'd say, kind of a creeped out feeling. Usually if I read.a.book from an author that I'm not familiar with, and I like it, the first thing I do is try to find other works by him or her. This book did not make me feel that way.
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marky77
5.0 out of 5 stars Psychic vampire aborted foetuses!
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2009
Spawn is the fourth book by Shaun Hutson that I have read (Complusion; Relics; Breeding Ground) and as always utterly addictive and very bloody.

The book starts with Harold Pierce accidentally starting a fire in his home and accidentally killing his mother and baby brother in what is probably the most brutally graphic burning scene ever written.
Years later he is released from a mental home where he is given a job at a local hospital burning aborted foetuses. Harold feels sorry for them and burries them in a field outside the hospital. There is soon a freak lightening storm which brings the foetus' back to life...
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BD Ashley
4.0 out of 5 stars BEST OF HUTSON'S EARLY BOOKS
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2001
Shaun Hutson hasn't written a horror novel for quite some time, maybe fatherhood's mellowed him a bit, but this rates as the best of his early books. It reads like a b-grade pulp horror, but as usual Hutson has done his homework and doesn't spare his readers the grisly details,with issues ranging from torture and mutilation to infanticide one would expect his work to be garbage,. Fortunately he is a very good writer with a good sense of pacing. If you haven't read Shaun Hutson before this is a good place to start.
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greg kinney
5.0 out of 5 stars I have had a copy for YEARS!!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2002
This is one of those books that I assumed was self-published. Realy. While I didn't find any spelling errors I did fine enough logical and continuity errors to fail a freshman Lit student! The book was GREAT however!!!
Read it, know it, be it!
I wasn't aware that, when an abortion is performed in Britain, the fetus is sent to the basement in a basket where a depressed caretaker throws it in the incinerator!!! Well; USED too - now he does different things with those fetuses....
I'll leave Shaun to tell you about what.
Anyway - loved it, didn't much manage to respect it - but LOVED it!!!
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Austin Conley
3.0 out of 5 stars Moments.
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2022
It was an okay read. I had trouble making my way through it but finished regardless. I wouldn't recommend it. A fun plot was there but I felt like it kept dragging overall.
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Debi Dutta
5.0 out of 5 stars This is Gold!
Reviewed in India on December 14, 2022
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Shaun Hutan writes so well. Perfect blend of horror and erotica. I love these reads. Got this book from Amazon luckily, when nowhere else to be found! Thanks again!!
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Ken
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic '80's, Gory page-turner
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2022
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Spawn rekindled my reading routine. It's an absolute page-turner. A beauty. I ripped through it. The ending, for me, was perfect.
I've not read Hutson since The '90's. So glad I picked this up.

Totally recommended. Now, on to 'Relics' by Mr. Shaun Hutson.
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Midnight Caller
4.0 out of 5 stars Good story, shame about the grammatical errors (Kindle version)
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2014
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I read a number of Shaun Hutson books a few years ago and remember that I thoroughly enjoyed them. For some reason, I then 'lost touch' with his books , but when I saw a number available for Kindle and only 99p each, I quickly downloaded a few and have now started Spawn. I am halfway through it at the time of writing this (Kindle shows that I am 50% of the way through it) and am really enjoying it. But the thing that stops me giving the book 5***** is the appalling grammatical errors. There are commas in the wrong places, which make some sentences hard to read and some incorrect words as well. In fact many of these errors clearly show that this book has simply been scanned and not digitally reformatted for reading on Kindles. For instance, a section that I was reading this morning had the word "minor" in a sentence......this should have been "mirror" and proves that when the book was scanned, the scanner thought that "minor" was the correct word, an error that would have been avoided if it was digitally converted. These errors are becoming annoying, which is a shame as the story being told is really good - if you think you wouldn't be put off by the errors, buy it and I hope you enjoy it. A warning though, the book is a bit 'graphic' and not necessarily a good one to read if you are eating!
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Sammy
5.0 out of 5 stars definately worth reading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2021
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i love the suspense of shauns books i have read this one 3 times now and will again !!! you can really picture in your mind everything that you are reading including the characters , i definately recommend his book never disappointed. thankyou
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Kryten
3.0 out of 5 stars A few plotholes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2019
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First titled Children of Hell, then Hellspawn, and finally Spawn, it was his second book, written in 3 months when he was just 23.

It's a couple of ideas in one. A damaged asylum patient is given a job 35 years after setting fire to his baby brother and mother in a hard to read prologue. A serial killer is on the loose. And best of all, three aborted foetuses are brought to life by a lightning strike that imbues them with telepathy and telekinetic powers.

It's a fast paced story and great fun but flawed in places. Why would a mentally ill man be given a job burning foetuses in a hospital? Why wouldn't the police send all they had to track down an escaped serial killer rather than one grizzled detective? And why would foetuses have the minds and rationality of adults yet want to survive on blood?

But if you're asking for sense you won't find it here. Gruesome in parts with a pointless subplot about the women who had the abortions getting sympathy symptoms when the foetuses cone back to life. The most annoying thing in the Kindle edition was several spelling errors. The most egregious was after the detective shared his tragic backstory about his wife and child dying, his new lover replies 'I'm so song,' which kind of ruins the mood. Poor editing!

Worth a read if you've a strong stomach and enjoy police procedurals with plotholes big enough to ski through like when a shallow grave of foetuses are found. Are the police called? Nope, the docs just have them carted off to be burned and say no more about it.
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