All 53 Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child novels, ranked
Book rankings: From Pendergast to Nora, from their collaborations to their solo works, here are my rankings of the output of the sci-fi/mystery/thriller duo.
Horror Novels
‘Pendergast: The Beginning’ mucks through swamp-minds of insane villains
Book review: Preston & Child deliver their first Pendergast prequel, and reveal he’s always been who he is. But would we have it any other way?
‘House of Leaves’ (2000) as fleeting as, well, a house of leaves
Book club book report: Still, the unusual format and decent character building make this bizarre, fantastical journey worth checking out.
‘The Birds’ (1952) flies higher as a short story than as a movie
On a Hitchcock kick (Book review): Stay beyond the Hitchcock homework for other du Maurier classics in the nine-story “Don’t Look Now” collection.
‘Jurassic Park’-style concepts don’t face ‘Extinction’ yet
Book review: Douglas Preston uses a Crichtonian concept as a launching point for a mysterious page-turner up to his usual standards.
The moor the merrier in ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ (1902)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Doyle’s gothic-horror descriptions of the moor and its denizens stand out more than the clues.
‘Insomnia’ (1994) is long but not sleep-inducing
Stephen King flashback (Book review): Although it reads like an important novel to King, it for some reason is not a popular target for adaptation.
Pessl wades into delicious darkness in ‘Night Film’ (2013)
Book club book report: The author imagines a pitch-black horror filmmaker and delves into his world for answers about a mysterious suicide.
‘Omen IV: Armageddon 2000’ (1983) continues horror saga in novel form
Frightening Friday (Book review): The novelization author of the third film gives us a crisp, unsurprising continuation. But at least it’s better than the “Omen IV” film.
‘Night Theater’ (2020) mixes body horror, spiritual questions
Book club book report: Vikram Paralkar digs into the human body and dark ideas in an incongruously readable short novel.