The Forbidden Zone is a 1993 science fiction horror novel by American writer Whitley Strieber, about an alien invasion by Lovecraftian monsters of a small American town.

Reception The reviewer for Kirkus Reviews opined that it is less subtle work than that of H. P. Lovecraft which inspired it, but still is a "genuinely scary [book], with plenty of scattered body parts for gorehound".

The book received several other reviews:

Review by Linda Marotta in Fangoria, August 1993 Review by Don D'Ammassa in Science Fiction Chronicle, no. 166, September 1993 Review by Stefan Dziemianowicz in Crypt of Cthulhu, Hallowmas 1993 Review by Mike Baker in Cemetery Dance, Fall 1993 Review by Martin Brice in Vector, no. 178 Review by Pete Crowther in Interzone, June 1994 Review by Julie Atkin in Vector, no. 180

Review by Izabela Szolc (1998) in Talizman #4-5 1998, p. 139 (in Polish)

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