The Abduction / The Visitation / Come the Night by Shaun Hutson

Smith did not have a problem with the book’s title, but Hutson later claimed that the novel was “banned outright.”) The cut manuscript was retitled and all future copies were published as Come the Night. (By Hutson’s own account, other retailers, including W.H. He has claimed it was 20 pages, 25 pages and 30 pages during different interviews.Īpparently Bookwise, the biggest book retailer in England, had banned the book from their stores because of the word ‘chainsaw’ in the title. The extent of these cuts varies depending on Shaun Hutson’s mood. A week after sending it in to his publisher, he got a call telling him that parts of it had to be cut out.

Shaun spent a few weeks (either 15 or 20 days) writing a manuscript titled Chainsaw Terror. Who doesn’t love a bit of chainsaw violence? Star, his publishing company failed to get the novelisation rights for the movie, but they encouraged Shaun to write a chainsaw novel anyways. In 1984, Shaun Hutson agreed to write a novelisation of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In this post, I want to present the most comprehensive account of the publishing of Chainsaw Terror/ Come the Night to date. There’s quite a few reviews of this novel online already, but I am far more interested in the story behind this book than the story in it.

A few weeks ago, I read a review that made doing so significantly easier. I have spent the last few months obsessing over the infamous Chainsaw Terror, but finding a copy seemed impossible.

The Abduction / The Visitation / Come the Night by Shaun Hutson