Danse macabre

✍ Scribed by King, Stephen

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoirOn Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece inDanse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

From the author of dozens of #1New York Timesbestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackleOn Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. Here, in ten brilliantly written chapters, King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre—fromFrankensteinandDraculatoThe Exorcist,The Twilight Zone, andEarth vs. The Flying Saucers.

With the insight and good humor his fans appreciated inOn Writing,Danse Macabreis an enjoyably entertaining tour through Stephen King’s beloved world of horror.

✦ Table of Contents

October 4, 1957, and an invitation to dance --
Tales of the hook --
Tales of the tarot --
An annoying autobiographical pause --
Radio and the set of reality --
The modern American horror movie: text and subtext --
The horror movie as junk food --
The glass teat, or, this monster was brought to you by Gainesburgers --
Horror fiction --
The last waltz: horror and morality, horror and magic --
Appendix 1: The films --
Appendix 2: The books.

✦ Subjects

Horror;Nonfiction;Language;Writing;Essays;Reference;Books About Books;Biography;Criticism;Literary Criticism;History