Danse Macabre
1980
- the fog
- the stand
- ghost story
- the house next door
- the shrinking man
- the haunting of hill house
- something wicked this way comes
- strange wine
- rosemary's baby
- the body snatchers
The story
This is a non-fiction study of the horror genre including books, movies, television, etc. ([source][1]) ---------- Also contained in: - [Works (Danse Macabre / Salem's Lot / Shining](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24233994W) [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/nonfiction/danse_macabre.html
What it’s like
Dense but companionable, like a well-thumbed paperback read in a cluttered armchair with a lamp pulled close. Stephen King's voice here is chatty, opinionated and funny, moving easily from a lean paragraph on a 1950s B-movie to a long, affectionate digression about the rooms, radio dramas and drive-in nights that shaped a generation of fear. The prose feels like late-night conversation with a fellow obsessive: sharp asides, lists of favourites, the occasional confession of a childhood scare. Its emotional register is warm and wry, with a steady undertow of unease whenever it turns to the bleakness of the stories it admires. The book suits a rainy Sunday, a long train ride, or an unhurried evening when you want to dip in and out between chapters. Intensity is low: it discusses violence, gore and cruelty as subjects of critical analysis rather than depicting them, so it reads as gentle, with no graphic scenes of its own. It is for readers who love horror as a shared cultural habit and enjoy being talked into rewatching or rereading old favourites.
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