--- product_id: 63791168 title: "Jago" price: "6029 kr" currency: ISK in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.is/products/63791168-jago store_origin: IS region: Iceland --- # Jago **Price:** 6029 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Jago - **How much does it cost?** 6029 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.is](https://www.desertcart.is/products/63791168-jago) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Jago : Kim Newman: desertcart.co.uk: Books Review: Excellent Bonus Stories - The main novel, Jago, has the classic grimy feeling and disturbingly real characters that are typical of Newman's writing, but much less humour than you usually find in his books. It also makes some perspicacious but uncomfortable points about human nature and reality. All in all, it's very good, exciting and frightening, but less fun than his other works. The short stories included at the end, however, are a wonderful reward. The characters of Jago are translated into other settings of vast originality and sweep you along through the nearly-familiar world with frequent bursts of laugh-embarrassingly-loud wit. They have the feeling of old fashioned adventure stories laced with a lot of dry, black observational comedy and it all works perfectly. Honestly, the three bonus short stories are worth the price, even without the novel. Review: The best Somerset-set horror I've read in decades - It's not often that a novel is set in Somerset, with its yokels talking in softly burred accents, and it's less frequent that those novels are apocalyptic page turners. Newman, one of Empire magazine's film critics, took every bad horror movie he could think of and lumped them into Jago. And then he went further, including the Green Man (if you're scared of Morris dancers or forests, that will make it much, much worse for you), the War of the Worlds, children's sick jokes, and much more. There's few things that made an impression on me the first time round; there was the farmer rutting with the soil of his farm. A sentence like "Farmer Maskell fertilised his fields" tends to stick with you, if you're a teenage boy. Most of the other sexual references (and there's a few, this being a more respectable version of a lurid Shaun Hutson horror) passed me by when I was younger, or I just blotted them out. I'd completely forgotten about the pub full of sick jokes (which is something I remember Will Self doing similar things with in The Quantity Theory Of Insanity), I'd never encountered the Ramones so I wouldn't understand the `gabba gabba' references and somehow I'd forgotten all the religious imagery. The F***ing Hell feels reminiscient of Slither, which appeared in cinemas about 15 years later, but I suppose the collapse of flesh into monstrosity predates that, with films like Society and much more besides. I suppose it would be surprising if I hadn't forgotten something; Jago is a hefty wodge of a book, and although some things will stick with each reader (the Moebius strip of a plot is probably one of them) there will be details you forget, or just miss in the first place. With twenty more years of reading horror, it's nice to appreciate some of what Newman was doing. Just like a one-man Cthulhu Mythos machine, he was intertwining the vampire stories and their protagonists, with some of his Somerset Wild West material, with any film he could think of, into a clever (and it knows it's clever, almost irritatingly so) mesh of storylines. Some of the harsher stuff, like the Farmer Maskell subplot, with its body horror, is a bit hard to take, and some bits link together almost too neatly for satisfaction, but the overarching premise, that truth is only visible by pain, is sustained well throughout, and even at the end I was still startled by some of the events. It's nice to read a book where everyone hurts, and the author may care for his characters but isn't scared about killing them when necessary. I think The Quorum is more enjoyable, and the Anno Dracula sequence more commercially viable, but if you wanted a literary equivalent of a lurid 80s Euro-horror, this would be right up there. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 1,631,959 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 4,459 in Horror Fantasy 6,736 in Horror Occult & Supernatural 12,177 in Contemporary Fantasy (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 52 Reviews | ## Images ![Jago - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81jK13JaNpL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Bonus Stories *by B***E on 7 October 2016* The main novel, Jago, has the classic grimy feeling and disturbingly real characters that are typical of Newman's writing, but much less humour than you usually find in his books. It also makes some perspicacious but uncomfortable points about human nature and reality. All in all, it's very good, exciting and frightening, but less fun than his other works. The short stories included at the end, however, are a wonderful reward. The characters of Jago are translated into other settings of vast originality and sweep you along through the nearly-familiar world with frequent bursts of laugh-embarrassingly-loud wit. They have the feeling of old fashioned adventure stories laced with a lot of dry, black observational comedy and it all works perfectly. Honestly, the three bonus short stories are worth the price, even without the novel. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best Somerset-set horror I've read in decades *by J***N on 1 May 2013* It's not often that a novel is set in Somerset, with its yokels talking in softly burred accents, and it's less frequent that those novels are apocalyptic page turners. Newman, one of Empire magazine's film critics, took every bad horror movie he could think of and lumped them into Jago. And then he went further, including the Green Man (if you're scared of Morris dancers or forests, that will make it much, much worse for you), the War of the Worlds, children's sick jokes, and much more. There's few things that made an impression on me the first time round; there was the farmer rutting with the soil of his farm. A sentence like "Farmer Maskell fertilised his fields" tends to stick with you, if you're a teenage boy. Most of the other sexual references (and there's a few, this being a more respectable version of a lurid Shaun Hutson horror) passed me by when I was younger, or I just blotted them out. I'd completely forgotten about the pub full of sick jokes (which is something I remember Will Self doing similar things with in The Quantity Theory Of Insanity), I'd never encountered the Ramones so I wouldn't understand the `gabba gabba' references and somehow I'd forgotten all the religious imagery. The F***ing Hell feels reminiscient of Slither, which appeared in cinemas about 15 years later, but I suppose the collapse of flesh into monstrosity predates that, with films like Society and much more besides. I suppose it would be surprising if I hadn't forgotten something; Jago is a hefty wodge of a book, and although some things will stick with each reader (the Moebius strip of a plot is probably one of them) there will be details you forget, or just miss in the first place. With twenty more years of reading horror, it's nice to appreciate some of what Newman was doing. Just like a one-man Cthulhu Mythos machine, he was intertwining the vampire stories and their protagonists, with some of his Somerset Wild West material, with any film he could think of, into a clever (and it knows it's clever, almost irritatingly so) mesh of storylines. Some of the harsher stuff, like the Farmer Maskell subplot, with its body horror, is a bit hard to take, and some bits link together almost too neatly for satisfaction, but the overarching premise, that truth is only visible by pain, is sustained well throughout, and even at the end I was still startled by some of the events. It's nice to read a book where everyone hurts, and the author may care for his characters but isn't scared about killing them when necessary. I think The Quorum is more enjoyable, and the Anno Dracula sequence more commercially viable, but if you wanted a literary equivalent of a lurid 80s Euro-horror, this would be right up there. ### ⭐⭐⭐ A throwback to old-skool horror stories *by R***N on 29 October 2014* It took a long time for me to trudge through this English country horror story, a tale of cult possessions and a kind of alternate Glastonbury festival which feels a lot like Hotel California: you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave... Jago was written back in the early 1990s before Newman's success with the AD series. It certainly feels like an early novel and doesn't have the polish and drive of his more recent stories, nor much of the acerbic wit or sharp-eyed satire. Instead it feels more like a lumbering old James Herbert horror-mystery -- nothing wrong in that, but it's a far cry from the captivating world of the Diogenes Club. There are moments of eye-opening excellence; some genuinely shocking sequences and some wonderfully weird inventions. But perhaps Jago wasa bit too ambitious in trying to weave together so many different perspectives and themes: Newman more than pulls it off in later books, but here I got bogged down in some of the rambling narrative. I'm almost surprised they didn't take a severe set of editorial scissors to it for the new edition: it always hurts to leave some of the action on the cutting room floor but it would've been a better book for it. An old-fashioned door-stopping monster of a book. Best read on holiday, over several days, when you have time and inclination to do little else. 7/10 --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.is/products/63791168-jago](https://www.desertcart.is/products/63791168-jago) --- *Product available on Desertcart Iceland* *Store origin: IS* *Last updated: 2026-05-09*