According to wikipedia, Anne Rice is an author of “gothic fiction, christian literature, and erotica.” One of these things is not like the other… I know Interview with the Vampire has been around for awhile, after all, I was in high school when Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt played Rice’s vampires, much to her dismay. That was more than *gulp* 20 years ago. But crap, the book is 40 years old people! So if you live under a rock, like me, or you just have […]
Whatever weird things you remember about childhood, probably not as weird as this…
In the words of the great John Cleese, “and now, for something completely different…” I don’t know what I was expecting from this book, but it wasn’t that. And yet, it’s probably spot on for Gaiman. So what do I know? I’m not sure how much I’m supposed to say because in reading the back of the book synopsis and other reviews, I just didn’t realize that this story was so out there. Whoever was tasked with writing that synopsis stuck on his best poker […]
You’ve heard of Shirley Jackson, if not this one, then her other…
“Merricat, said Constance, would you like a cup of tea?” “Oh no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me.” “Merricat, said Constance, would you like to go to sleep?” “Down in the boneyard ten feet deep.” What if this was a schoolyard rhyme you learned as a kid, whose origins lay in a mysterious house in your neighborhood where you’ve heard two strange sisters live, but who you’ve never seen? You’ve heard other things, too. That the sisters eat children, and if you think you’ve insulted them, […]
Well, the cover’s cool, but as they say…
Why do people like this book? Am I missing something? I get it. Bad writing and an improbable plot that could also operate as a pasta strainer have united like a defective pair of power twins before to create cult successes (I’m looking at you Sharknado). And really, there is a whole genre of bad horror films…but does it work with books, too? I’m not a horror book reader, so I’m sincerely asking. Why do people think this book is so scary? Creepy kids? Scary. […]