Danse Macabre - The Library of the Uncommons

mass market paperback, 479 pages

English language

Published by Hodder.

ISBN:: 978-0-340-89909-0

It was not long after Halloween when Stephen King received a telephone call from his editor. 'Why don't you do a book about the entire horror phenomenon as you see it? Books, movies, radio, TV, the whole thing. '

The result is this unique combination of fantasy and autobiography, of classic horror writing honed to an unforgettable edge by the bestselling master of the genre.

Danse Macabre ranges across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture from the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein. It is a charming and fascinating book, replete with pertinent anecdote and observation, in which Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works on many levels and how he brings it to bear on his own inimitable novels. --back cover

It was not long after Halloween when Stephen King received a telephone call from his editor. 'Why don't you do a book about the entire horror phenomenon as you see it? Books, movies, radio, TV, the whole thing. '

The result is this unique combination of fantasy and autobiography, of classic horror writing honed to an unforgettable edge by the bestselling master of the genre.

Danse Macabre ranges across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture from the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein. It is a charming and fascinating book, replete with pertinent anecdote and observation, in which Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works on many levels and how he brings it to bear on his own inimitable novels. --back cover

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TomeAlone reviewed Stephen King's Danse macabre by Stephen King

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2 stars

Not my favorite. As much as I love his books, I think that I don't share his tastes, which is fine. I was expecting/wanting more of the process of writing and developing his books, but that wasn't in this one. Probably improper expectations on my part. However, the man really does know the genre.

And, boy howdy, does he dislike critics.