Tuesday, September 11, 2007

A constant process of honing

"What separates the talented individual from the successful one
is a lot of hard work and study;
a constant process of honing."
Stephen King

In Danse Macabre, the most prolific and celebrated horror writer in the English language surveys the horror genre as a fan. He examines everything from horror films to novels to comic books, and radio and television.

He also examines the genre's four prominent archetypes: Dracula, Jeckyll & Hyde, Frankenstein, and the Ghost. King, like the teacher he once was, manages to tie a thread between these four archetypes and virtually the entire modern horror genre.

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