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(book) Stephen King – Revival: King´s return to cosmic horror concept

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When I saw the tagline that said vintage King and read a couple of reviews that said about this one King returned to horror, it was mandatory for me to check out this piece of novel for myself.

Jamie Morton grew up with his family in a small village in Maine, one day a preacher called Charlie Jacobs came into his life and life of other people there. Charlie cured Jamie´s brother Conn with electricity experiments when Conn was left without his voice. Everything was fine and idyllic till one day tragedy struck, Charlie changed and horror spread through coming decades leaving Morton, now drug addicted musician to find Charlie again and stop the madness.

I am sorry but I can´t discover more about story of this novel because that would be spoiler for all those who want to read this beauty. Yes, they were right, King returned to horror with this one, and did it big time. This one is a total homage to old school Universal Frankenstein movies, also, and more being homage to late great Lovecraft and his concept of cosmic horror and what lies behind our world. This one kinda starts slow, like we are used to in many of King´s opus, but evolves into one hell of a tense novel and the ending is such bleak and eerie couple of chapters that leave you depressed and in awe what you just finished. So, first half of the book is Americana King style, with some supernatural signs, but other half of the book is awesome horror for us fiends craving for such work. Because of slowness, the book is not perfect but damn close to highest ranks.

8/10

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(knjiga) Six Short Stories – Selected by Stephen King

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Stephen King mi je oduvijek bio jedan od najdražih autora, nema veze radi li se o njegovim horror knjigama i pričama ili o njegovim trilerima ili dramama, sve mi je njegovo sjelo baš odlično. U ovoj knjizi je vjerojatno imao deal da se njegovo ime iskoristi za reklamu. Kada je izdao Bazaar of broken dreams, postojala je nagradna igra temeljem koje pobjednik dobije objavu svoje priče, a pobijedila je Elodie Harper, čija priča Lovecraftianske atmosfere mi je ujedno i najdraža u ovoj zbirci. No, još pet priča uz njenu je ušla u uži izbor, pa je King odlučio progurati i njihovu objavu u ovoj zbirci. Znači, riječ je o šest priča sa Kingovim predgovorom. No, tu nastaje problem, jer meni osobno su odlične samo prva, već spomenuta i posljednja priča Bear Trap koja je postnuklearapokaliptična sa odličnim gory završetkom. Ostale četiri priče ne drže baš vodu po mom ukusu i puno su slabije od dvije navedene. Sve u svemu, ne prilično baš dobra zbirka. Radije potražite nešto drugo za pročitati u ove vruće dane.

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Some Stephen King and Neil Gaiman books I have read lately!

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October is the right month for reading some darker horror and fantasy books, so I have been reading some stuff from one of my favourite writers of all times, Stephen King.

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For starters, there is one short novel/story that I finished in one day, namely Dolans Cadillac. This is not a horror story, it is rather thriller with a classic theme or motive and it is revenge. The main characters wife sees a mafia boss murder someone and for that she gets blown up in her car. Her husband seeks out revenge, and plans to do it on a remote desert highway when mafia boss will travel to Las Vegas in his cadillac. Although short, this is a nice piece of tense thriller with psychological stuff thrown in for good measure. It was really nice to read and feel the main characters rage and anguish in his efforts to avenge his innocent wife. Whether he succeeded or not, read it yourselves!

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This was a short ride, so I decided to stay for a while with Stephen King, so I have read another one, namely Cycle of the Werewolf, upon which was made Silver Bullet, great werewolf themed horror flick. Little town is under siege by the horrible nameless beast. Every full moon the beast comes out and kills people untill it runs into a boy in a wheelchair who manages to guess the real identity of the beast. Who will win in this battle? A boy or the beast? Wow! This one was a great nostalgic return to my childhood years when I was at the same time fascinated and scared by the movie that I mentioned above. The movie follows the book almost to the letter, so if you saw the movie youll know what I am talking, in fact writing about.

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Untill American Gods, Neil Gaiman was practically a mystery to me. I have heard about his works and many of my friends spoke to me about his books, him being one of their favorite writers. So, I decided to read one of his books and it was okay. The epic story about ex con Shadow caught in the war between old and new deities was for me a combination between dark fantasy and road novel, Americana. Since I love heroic sword and sorcery fantasy along with my Star Wars this kind of dark fantasy took some time to work for me. This was an okay novel but for me nothing more. I will of course give Neil Gaiman a chance and read more of his works to get the real picture of him as an author.