| Author | Message | ||
     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
You know, I really fancy this... http://www.cemeterydance.com/sh/blatty01.html | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Tony, the day I see you order that will be the day my dog grows horns and meows like a badger. | ||
| John (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
Could be interesting (the book, and the reaction of Gary's dug). | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.190.15 |
I hate to say this, but from the somewhat clumsily written (a 'storm from civilisation'?) blurb on that page, it doesn't look particularly original or interesting to me. Isn't this just the same story that appeared in the rather disappointing anthology 999?. "Blatty proves that a good haunted house story can still be written." Eh? I wasn't aware that this was in any doubt, given the effective work on this theme in recent years by authors like Jonathan Aycliffe, Lucius Shepard, Douglas Clegg, Ramsey and others. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
...and, besides, the end reversal of roles between the living and the dead comes somewhat musty after Amenabar's movie "The Others", unless Blatty wrote the novelette before the movie was made. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.170 |
but it's some 200 pages, I thought so perhaps it's extended? | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
One of the book's blurbs mentions Stephen King's assertion that the traditional ghost story is dead. If King actually said that, I guess I'm sort of surprised. Anyone know where King might have made such an assertion? | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.33.191 |
Chris, I was curious about that too. | ||
| John (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
It does seem like kind of an irresponsible claim. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.42.48.249 |
Did this happen? And Gary - guess what? - you were right.  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Tony, lately?... Your nickname really should be, the Warlock of Endor.  |