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The outcome is an utterly charming book that reads as if King were sitting right there with you, shooting the breeze. He starts on October 4, 1957, when he was 10 years old, watching a Saturday matinee of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Just as the saucers were mounting their attack on "Our Nation's Capital," the movie was suddenly turned off. The manager of the theater walked out onto the stage and announced, "The Russians have put a space satellite into orbit around the earth. They call it ... Spootnik."
That's how the whole book goes: one simple, yet surprisingly pertinent, anecdote or observation after another. King covers the gamut of horror as he'd experienced it at that point in 1978 (a period of about 30 years): folk tales, literature, radio, good movies, junk movies, and the "glass teat". It's colorful, funny, and nostalgic--and also strikingly intelligent. --Fiona Webster -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Let me first say that Mr. King's memory is not the greatest. He gets many details wrong in this book, and even the updated version that King released in the mid-80's did not catch all the mistakes. This, however, can be forgiven, because King wrote a very readable and enjoyable (if brief and sketchy) history of horror in literature, the movies, radio, and TV. This is by no means a definitive book on the genre, but it is arguably the most fun you may ever have reading about the subject.
Even with the errors (most involve plots of movies that King does not remember correctly), and even though this is a non-fiction work, Danse Macabre sets a defi! nite mood that many writers of horror fiction have tried, but failed, to create. King's frame of reference in writing this book is based on his own early experience with the genre. He talks of listening to the classic radio program "Lights Out" with his aging grandfather, of the movie theatre manager who stopped the film "Earth vs the Flying Saucers" to announce the launching of the Russian satellite Sputnik, of an incident that his mother told him about horrifying experience he had as a child, an incident so terrible that he does not remember it to this day. This book, by necessity, is rooted in King's childhood, the place where the ghosts and the goblins and all the other unnamable terrors are usually born in children. If you love the horror genre and would like King's unique insight on the definitive books, television shows and movies of the genre, this book is highly recommended.
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