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Kind of a strange one to have lumped in the middle of a load of horrors, my mate borrowed my copy of Stephen Hawkins 'A Brief History of Time' and then moved to the other side of the country (he also took The Stand and Turn of the Screw as well the bastard) anyways I had to replace it but thought I'd go for this, not much to say really, if you are interested in this sort of shit its well worth a read although I preferred Brief History of Time.
'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in 'Salem's Lot was a summer of home-coming and return; spring burned out and the land lying dry, crackling underfoot. Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to 'Salem's Lot hoping to cast out his own devils... and found instead a new unspeakable horror.
A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved.
All would be changed forever—Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test; and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare of 'Salem's Lot.
First time I'd read this in about 15 years, it is what it is, Vampires as they should be, none of this twilight bollocks.
Its strange how everyone in the town seemed quite happy to embrace the idea of a vampire breakout in the middle of their little town, it seems like everyone seemed to just accept that this mythical creature had decided to take up residence in The Lot, if i remember correctly there was only one person who thought the very idea was preposterous and he died around 5 minutes later.
Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles.
Inspired by the unsolved disappearance of a female college student near Shirley Jackson's home, Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation.
Just finished this today, I love Shirley Jacksons books and this one was really good, it sounds like a bog standard coming of age book, its anything but, some of the writing was really clever, Jackson omits certain things in order to drive her point home and she works it in such a way that as the main character starts struggling to differentiate between what is real and not the reader has exactly the same problem, it did get confusing as fuck towards the end but I think that was partly intentional to try and convey how much poor old Natalie was struggling as well.
Next up is this, I don't know whether to start it tonight or just stick a film on
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.
Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
The book that became Blade Runner, I've been wanting to read this for years but for some reason never got around to it.
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