Stephen King's Danse Macabre
Edition: 1st Futura edition, reprint
Publisher: Futura
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780708821817
Copyright date: 1981
First sentence: FOR ME, the terrorthe real terror, as opposed to whatever demons and boogeys which might have been living in my own mindbegan on an afternoon in October of 1957.
Description: DANSE MACABRE is a unique combination of fantasy and autobiography, of classic horror writing honed to an unforgettable edge; an analysis of horror, terror and the supernatural in films, television and books by the bestselling master of the genre — Stephen King Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in culture and going back to the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works at many levels, and how he brings it to in his own inimitable novels.
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