whimsicallymeghan 's review for:

Danse Macabre by Stephen King

3.0

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Final thoughts: Aside from being extremely repetitive at times and throughout multiple chapters, there was some good content that was actually worth reading. His thoughts on the horror genre (once you finally wade through it all) was interesting and reading his thought process on how he feels he fits into the genre was captivating. He leaned into a lot of the different formats and didn’t just stick to books, which led to fascinating discussions that this reader never thought about before reading this. He also gave great examples for readers to check out to back up his points that he talked about. Even if you haven’t read the work he mentioned, he went into great detail so you didn’t feel like you had to read/watch it - it was helpful but also made some of his points hard to get through because it felt like you were wading through long scene descriptions or synopsis. Did this book need to be as long as it was? Probably not, but every once in a while, there was something good to read. He also talked about the different sub-genres of horror, which again, was something this reader never looked at before so there was some good stuff there. 
In the end, this reader wouldn’t recommend it to the causal King fan or even a causal horror fan. If you’re really into his work, you will find this compelling to read; otherwise it reads more as a biased look into why one guy loves the genre a lot.