Stephen King's Danse Macabre

from bookwormteri

I found the author and subject quite interesting. But I am a little younger than King himself and did not grow up with the sci fi and horror that he did. I would, however, be EXTREMELY interested in King's take on horror novels, movie, and television from 1980 onwards. I feel that horror became m...

from StefanY

This book length essay on the horror genre turned out to be much more entertaining than I expected. Even when writing a nonfiction genre-study, King cannot avoid being King. His goofy sense of humor, absolute frankness, and the occasional crass comment made me feel more like I was having a beer w...

from nm.fall07.jbaker

Stephen King's Danse Macabre is King's personal study and review of the horror genre from 1950-80. His review covers from radio broadcasts to literature to film and t.v. The book is very entertaining, with King's personal anectodes and experiences thrown in the middle of things. Each medium of th...

from bookwormteri

I found the author and subject quite interesting. But I am a little younger than King himself and did not grow up with the sci fi and horror that he did. I would, however, be EXTREMELY interested in King's take on horror novels, movie, and television from 1980 onwards. I feel that horror became m...

from irkthepurist

What a thoroughly maddening book - or alternatively, what a wonderful three hundred page book lurking in a five hundred page beast. King has lots of very good points to make and makes them well and I really do enjoy his factual books more than I do his fiction, but... firstly it's maddeningly opi...