As a 40-year-old I'd have to say that reading pretty much anything about Nazi Germany or the Holocaust is terrifying because it actually happened, and it does put horror fiction in perspective - I defy anyone to read, say, "Hitler's Willing Executioners" or "The Third Reich In Power" and still be scared by fictional…

As a 40-year-old I'd have to say that reading pretty much anything about Nazi Germany or the Holocaust is terrifying because it actually happened, and it does put horror fiction in perspective - I defy anyone to read, say, "Hitler's Willing Executioners" or "The Third Reich In Power" and still be scared by fictional…

I'm the same - I love reading those things, both for the mystery and just to creep myself out.

I'm the same - I love reading those things, both for the mystery and just to creep myself out.

Imagine being the poor bastard who found her - in full glorious colour, too.

Imagine being the poor bastard who found her - in full glorious colour, too.

@avclub-ad45e11f2e88b8963920c79cd1d8755e:disqus FUCK. ME. I had the first book you linked to when I was a kid and I'd forgotten all about it until now. It used to scare the shit out of me. Thanks for the memories!

@avclub-ad45e11f2e88b8963920c79cd1d8755e:disqus FUCK. ME. I had the first book you linked to when I was a kid and I'd forgotten all about it until now. It used to scare the shit out of me. Thanks for the memories!

Fuck yes - I read about that on Wikipedia one night and it totally gave me the creeps.

Fuck yes - I read about that on Wikipedia one night and it totally gave me the creeps.

I think King basically admitted in Danse Macabre that he pretty much ripped off Rats In The Walls, but it's so effing good you don't care.

I think King basically admitted in Danse Macabre that he pretty much ripped off Rats In The Walls, but it's so effing good you don't care.

I think it's the bit where, after Patrick kills his infant brother, his dad spots his footprints going into the baby's room and just for a few seconds wonders…

I think it's the bit where, after Patrick kills his infant brother, his dad spots his footprints going into the baby's room and just for a few seconds wonders…

I'd also argue that Christine acts as a good metaphor for how good friends slowly (or quickly) drift apart when something comes between them that changes one of them. In real life it's usually a girl/boy, or drugs and alcohol, but in the novel it's the car.

I'd also argue that Christine acts as a good metaphor for how good friends slowly (or quickly) drift apart when something comes between them that changes one of them. In real life it's usually a girl/boy, or drugs and alcohol, but in the novel it's the car.

I'd go the other way with 'Salem's Lot - I enjoyed the fact that the vampire was an utter monster and it was its familiar that was the urbane type.

I'd go the other way with 'Salem's Lot - I enjoyed the fact that the vampire was an utter monster and it was its familiar that was the urbane type.

@avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus I can well believe that - I've had my little niece run away from me a few times, as small mischievous kids are wont to do, and I've been terrified I won't be able to catch her.

@avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus I can well believe that - I've had my little niece run away from me a few times, as small mischievous kids are wont to do, and I've been terrified I won't be able to catch her.