Book Review: Bohun - The Complete Savage Adventures by Steve Dilks - PART TWO

        After this thrilling introduction to Bohun, The Horror from the Stars opens at a slower pace but is no less menacing as our hero is warned “…evil is abroad in Al-Siwar” by a strange old man, who inexplicably disappears soon after. But Al-Siwar is where Bohun is heading and no dire warnings will stop him from going there because its sultan, Akim Harrad, possesses Bohun’s wife, Dana, as one of his harem slaves and Bohun is determined to free her.

If there was no sorcery in the first story, Dilks more than makes up for it here, with a particularly nasty creature which is probably an alien entity of some kind, that feeds off people’s life forces and intends to replicate itself in an especially nauseating way. Bohun is pushed to the brink in this tale – and in some ways beyond it. His life is not an easy one, nor is it bereft of grief. It’s a tough, heartless world in which he lives and in the end it takes all of his resilience and fortitude to survive, both mentally and physically.