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Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Scribner hc, 1st edition, 531pp ISBN: 978-1-4767-2765-3

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Scribner hc, 1st edition, 531pp ISBN: 978-1-4767-2765-3 The sequel to The Shining, in which Danny is all grown up, succeeds in remaining consonant to the original novel enough to justify considering them a duad, a … Continue reading

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A Wassail Bowl of Rat Stew for Everyone at Yuletide

(Note:  My column Rat Stew appears in the APA Zine:  The Reluctant Famulus,             edited by Tom Sadler.  Please see link on right column of this page.) Christmas is a time for horror movies so let’s dive in, shall we? SILENCE … Continue reading

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The Book of Joby by Mark Ferrari

…Have you read all the Potters? Have you read The Innkeeper’s Song by Peter S. Beagle; Prince Ombra by Roderick MacLeish; Mainspring by Jay Lake; Needful Things by Stephen King; The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain? All those and many others ring in one’s head while reading The Book of Joby, which parallels them all in ways Joseph Campbell would have recognized in his thesis of the Hero With A Thousand Faces. There is a groundswell of modern storytelling bearing a new appraisal of ancient myth, and The Book of Joby epitomizes this manifestation of old-into-new. And yet The Book of Joby remains Ferrari’s own original work… Continue reading

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King of the Sacred Lagoon

…As Compton dashed up the stairs to the weather deck, to see who had screamed and why, Lassiter headed downward a deck and along the central corridor. He reached the locked door, this time on his right, but had no need to use his key — the door was torn off its hinges. “Oh Sadie,” he said, following the slime trail… Continue reading

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