“Not horror with a "Boo!" but horror with a mood.”
“Miss Lonelyhearts is possibly one of the bleakest things I've ever read that remains an object of perfect beauty.”
“Donna Kossy covers the poor benighted souls on the periphery of society. The believers in antigravity devices, worldwide nazi ufo conspiracies, and even stranger self-made belief systems. Now that anyone with a DSL connection can make even a site extolling the belief that God killed the dinosaurs because they were [i]evil[/i] look professional, [i]Kooks[/i] is a look back at the years of quiet printed desperation, when you could FEEL the crazy rising off the page. A necessity for any library of the bizarre.”
“Grim tales of bitter desperation, failure, and infighting amongst Victorian writers. A terrifying book that show how little has changed in the literray world since then.”
“Not bad, but Loop pretty much ejects everything you've learned in the first two books of the Ring trilogy in favor of a freaky sci-fi plot. I don't want to reveal too much, but it's a little bit annoying when the antagonist of the first two books takes on a second banana role.”
“Spiral is a far more frightening follow-up to ring. Ring is good, but it really is just a old-fashioned ghost story at heart (and that's a good thing). Spiral, however, expands on the original concept of the cursed videotape, slowly revealing Sadako's grand plan. More detective work and codebreaking make this a smarter sequel. It has an internal logic that the first novel doesn;t have.”
“Ring is a good start for the Ring trilogy. Unfortunately, the plot has become so well known because of the Japanese and American movies, it may not seem so scary for the first-time reader. Still, stick with it. I like its slow, deliberate build up, and the detective story angle is great fun.”
“Shirley straddled the line between genre fiction and high literature. Seems like the best writers are rarely horror writers, the idea being, I suppose, that a story with a shock ending or final "BOO!" isn't worthy of inclusion in the literary pantheon. "The Lottery" remains a classic. Sinclair Lewis meets Rod Serling.”
“Probably the best of the Twilight Zone writers, right after Serling himself, Richard Matheson set up most of the familiar scifi/horror/fantasy tropes that have since become cliches. His work still remains eminently readable, the plots chugging along at a perfect pace.”
“Probably the best of the Twilight Zone writers, right after Serling himself, Richard Matheson set up most of the familiar scifi/horror/fantasy tropes that have since become cliches. His work still remains eminently readable, the plots chugging along at a perfect pace. ”
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