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A review by mtroeller
Danse Macabre by Stephen King
5.0
You don’t just get the monicker “The King of Horror” without truly knowing horror.
This book personally missed me in many ways as I am a fan of Stephen King and not so much a fan of the entire scope of horror.
But this is the love child of an author who not only has dominated the modern horror writing landscape but whose works have almost all been adapted into film or television (almost always poorly with only a few incredible exceptions). For this to come from King at the age of 34 only 10 novels and 7 years into his writing career at that has now spanned more than 50 years and 80 books is absolutely ridiculous. He had clearly read more, studied more, and learned more about the entire topic of horror in 34 years than I could hope to learn about 1 minuscule topic in my entire life.
This made me realize just how vast of a knowledge of horror writing, television, and movies that SK has. This is probably why his works vary in scope, forms of horror, and originality. He knows nearly everything that has been done before, pays homage to them, but always steers clear of redoing what has already been done.
This book personally missed me in many ways as I am a fan of Stephen King and not so much a fan of the entire scope of horror.
But this is the love child of an author who not only has dominated the modern horror writing landscape but whose works have almost all been adapted into film or television (almost always poorly with only a few incredible exceptions). For this to come from King at the age of 34 only 10 novels and 7 years into his writing career at that has now spanned more than 50 years and 80 books is absolutely ridiculous. He had clearly read more, studied more, and learned more about the entire topic of horror in 34 years than I could hope to learn about 1 minuscule topic in my entire life.
This made me realize just how vast of a knowledge of horror writing, television, and movies that SK has. This is probably why his works vary in scope, forms of horror, and originality. He knows nearly everything that has been done before, pays homage to them, but always steers clear of redoing what has already been done.