![]() ![]() I would love to see a revised edition where he looks at the horror genre from 1990 onwards. Some of the shows and movies he discusses have probably never been seen by people from my generation. The only issue with Danse Macabre is that he only looks at the horror genre in 1950 – 1980 so it hasn’t dated well in 2012. There are two detailed appendices at the end of the book that list 100 horror films and horror novels he recommends. ![]() King discusses the horror genre in general which includes discussing radio programmes and TV shows that dealt with the supernatural, why he writes in the genre, horror in movies, horror in fiction and how real-life sometimes imitates art. ![]() I bought it about fifteen years ago when I first became a fan of King. I’ve also read On Writing by Stephen King, So You Want to be a Writer by Jane Wenham Jones and Freedom in Exile by The Dalai Lama.ĭanse Macabre was published the year I was born. Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture and going back to the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works at many levels, and how he brings it to bear in his own inimitable novels…ĭanse Macabre is one of only four non-fiction books I’ve ever read. DANSE MACABRE is a unique combination of fantasy and autobiography, of classic horror writing honed to an unforgettable edge an analysis of horror, terror and the supernatural in films, television and books by the bestselling master of the genre – Stephen King. ![]()
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