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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.157.112.5
Posted on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 03:49 pm:   

You know, I really fancy this...
http://www.cemeterydance.com/sh/blatty01.html
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 82.20.31.211
Posted on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 05:02 pm:   

Tony, the day I see you order that will be the day my dog grows horns and meows like a badger.
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John (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 09:51 pm:   

Could be interesting (the book, and the reaction of Gary's dug).
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.190.15
Posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - 04:53 am:   

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.
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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.3
Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 10:44 am:   

...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.
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
Username: Tom_alaerts

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.78.35.170
Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 09:44 pm:   

but it's some 200 pages, I thought so perhaps it's extended?
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Chris_morris (Chris_morris)
Username: Chris_morris

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 12.165.240.116
Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 10:03 pm:   

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?
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 61.216.33.191
Posted on Friday, February 06, 2009 - 01:33 am:   

Chris, I was curious about that too.
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John (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Friday, February 06, 2009 - 08:34 pm:   

It does seem like kind of an irresponsible claim.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 01:05 am:   

Did this happen?
And Gary - guess what? - you were right. :-(
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 02:33 am:   

Tony, lately?... Your nickname really should be, the Warlock of Endor.

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