Bill Garnett, Helltrain

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I bought this book new in the mid 1970s. Loved it as an impressionable person. Still love it in middle age. Yes - it's pulp but delightful in that. I particularly liked the ongoing description of the dissociation of the little girl who wants to murder her mother - unless her father gets there first! The tale is not new - even then - but the description is great and it has a few horrid and suspenseful moments. If you accept the genre for what it is, or what it was as a British book of the time, it is excellent. I recommend it - so much so that I bought another copy in the same first edition when mine went missing (I should predicate with that that I am a collector of this type of fiction). Right up there with "Worms" (Arrow books)in the "miserable English" subset.

Originally released in 1973 under the title "Down-Bound Train", Bill Garnet's first novel was later re-released in 1988 under the new title "Helltrain". The novel is a simple pulp horror tale that uses basic 'horror' principles of a train bound for hell, and delivers the story in a fast-paced and intriguing way.

Garnett has created five 'evil' characters, which are each individually outlined at the beginning of the novel, and sets them on a train journey that ultimately ends in hell. First off you have a priest who's disciplinary measures in an all boy's catholic school, ends up killing a innocent school boy. Next is a career driven female who climbed the ladder in the advertising world using blackmail and falsely framing her boss. Then there's the man who becomes a hit-man purely to afford his expensive lifestyle. Finally there's the ten year old girl and her father. The girl has pure 'evil' running through her veins and after making a pact with Satan, decides to kill her mother. Her dad has become bored with life itself and has also been slowly trying to murder his wife (until his daughter finally finishes the job off for him).

With these characters stories all put down early on in the novel, the outcome is obvious from the very beginning. Yet Garnett has managed to produce an interesting scenario to the plot with his sometimes bizarre descriptive nature. The book was a joy to read, at times delivering such outrageous descriptions that it is difficult to put down. Running for a mere 186 pages, the book is a quick read that somehow keeps you glued to the pages. Garnett's description of the priests eyes gleaming like rabbit turds, made me laugh out loud.

If you enjoy reading pulp/trash horror novels then this is one you'll love to get your hands on. The style of writing is odd, but that gives the novel it's own humorous charm. The book was published by St. Martin's press and I think is well worth the few quid it will cost to buy. Great stuff...if you like that sort of thing!!!!