This book was a series of novelizations of 80s horror films written by Dennis Etchison and one of the few that bears his name and not the pseudonym of Jack Martin. That is probably because this is one of his best novelizations. While some of his earlier novelizations, including the Halloween series, are clearly written to pay the rent, this one enhances the film and has some nice Etchison touches...A veil had descended over the whole coast...It wrapped itself around the sand dunes and braided through the telephone wires up on the road,sneaking over the landscape and cloaking the sea. The fog, if that what it was, was white as vanilla ice cream.
Etchison's talent for evoking eeriness and terror is all over this work, While, of course, not as original as his short fiction, The Fog is still worthwhile seeking out as a primary example of Etchison's early writings.
