[Holocoz]

I'm quite interested to find out if there exists a novel out there that has elements from the video game Forbidden Siren and the film The Crazies. You get the drift: a town is filled with possessed citizens (not zombies, mind you) and the main characters do all they can to escape from the clutches of these killers or whatevers.

The closest I can get to is Children of the Corn, but that ain't a novel.
There is also James Herbert's The Fog, but I am looking for more.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot. :)

[Rulkez]

The only one I can really think of is Phantoms (http://www.deankoontz.com/books/phantoms) by Koontz.

[Barnes]

Have a look at Hater by David Moody, zombie-ish story without the zombies.

Midnight by Koontz might be a better bet then Phantoms.

[Randy M.]

I'm quite interested to find out if there exists a novel out there that has elements from the video game Forbidden Siren and the film The Crazies. You get the drift: a town is filled with possessed citizens (not zombies, mind you) and the main characters do all they can to escape from the clutches of these killers or whatevers.

The closest I can get to is Children of the Corn, but that ain't a novel.
There is also James Herbert's The Fog, but I am looking for more.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot. :)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

I think I read a couple of reviews of Simon Clark novels that sound like your plot description, too.


Randy M.

[pockiiee]

Stephen King likes to go this route in quite a few of his short stories - maybe you'd like Cell, people start to go nuts after using their cell phones and turn into Zombie like creatures, heroes have to escape them, it wasn't my favorite but I felt like I was reading a video game so it might be what you are looking for.

Oh yes, and Body Snatchers is excellent!

[Randy M.]

Stephen King likes to go this route in quite a few of his short stories - maybe you'd like Cell, people start to go nuts after using their cell phones and turn into Zombie like creatures, heroes have to escape them, it wasn't my favorite but I felt like I was reading a video game so it might be what you are looking for.

Oh yes, and Body Snatchers is excellent!

It just occurred to me that King's 'Salem's Lot is rather like this, too. You might also look into Thomas Tryon's Harvest Home, though that doesn't feel at all like a video game.


Randy M.