![]() ![]() Sure, there’s some straightforward gore, with the starfish feasting on several workers and other unfortunates, but as a whole it never comes together and never makes any goddamned sense. The far too knowledgeable professor seems to be a stock character from Derleth, while the nonsensical theories about the city are from Fritz Leiber’s Our Lady of Darkness. There’s stuff from Lovecraft, with even Cthulhu getting a shout-out at one point. ![]() ![]() And then it all derails somehow, with the professor throwing around star-stones to ward off evil or something.īorrowing from everyone and everything, Monteleone completely forgets realism and throws all other ingredients into the mix. Soon enough they’re hooking up, and together with a nerdy professor Lane they descend into the tunnels. ![]() Hot newscaster Lya feels there’s a story and begins to investigate, while manly cop Michael is on the trail of a subway slasher. It begins enticingly enough with a subway train that disappeared in mysterious circumstances one hundred years ago. Monteleone of Borderlands anthology fame. New York subways are invaded by all manner of transdimensional creatures from shiny fog to pale dwarves to carnivorous starfish in Night-Train, a 1984 urban horror novel from Thomas F. The UK cover seems to be a bad copy of the original. ![]()
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