![]() ![]() The farmer cogently pleads with his wife to keep the land in the family. We impose our horror on the external world to understand it, and ourselves.įull Dark, No Stars, the novellas follow regular people through the ordinary actions that lead up to our human horror: A farmer kills his wife because she intends to sell her recently inherited 100 acres to an adjacent hog butcher. That a rabid dog can keep you trapped in a sun-baked Gremlin is frightening, of course, but what makes it truly horrific is the implication that the dog might also be demonic. This intersection of the vaguely supernatural and the explainable horrific is what makes King masterful. Bernard felt demon-possessed as well as plain old rabid, or the way that the teacher Johnny Smith is ambiguously clairvoyant or psychopathic, saviour or murderer, in None has that Kingian characteristic of the supernatural horror intersecting with the human everyday - as inĬujo, where the St. King's latest is a book of four seemingly unrelated novellas grounded in the human-horrific, the horrors of our own making. ![]() Yes, the style is at times clunky, the pace viscous, and the narratives hardly form-conscious sophisticated - but no one knows us better than King does. ![]() Yes, it feels like he's more prolific than Philip Roth + John Updike. The Shining - yet he remains the master of the American Neo-Gothic novel. Stephen King begets better films than books - like Cronenberg's ![]()
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