Rick Hautala (1949–2013)
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Werken van Rick Hautala
The Hum 3 exemplaren
Oil Man / Our Things 3 exemplaren
Evil Jester Digest Volume One 3 exemplaren
Dirt on the Diamond 2 exemplaren
Sources Of The Nile 2 exemplaren
The Back of My Hands 1 exemplaar
Blood Ledge 1 exemplaar
Miss Henry's Bottles 1 exemplaar
Tin Can Telephone 1 exemplaar
Ghost Trap [Short Story] 1 exemplaar
Over The Top 1 exemplaar
Scared Crows 1 exemplaar
Come Back to Me (The Kellys of Key West #1.5) 1 exemplaar
Gerelateerde werken
Mister October: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala (Volume 2) (2013) — Medewerker — 63 exemplaren
A Haunting of Horrors, Volume 2: A Twenty-Book eBook Bundle of Horror and the Occult (2014) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- Hautala, Rick
- Officiële naam
- Hautala, Richard Andrew
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Matthews, A. J.
- Geboortedatum
- 1949-02-03
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2013-03-21
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Rockport, Massachusetts, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Westbrook, Maine, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Maine, USA
- Opleiding
- University of Maine (MA|English Literature|1974)
- Beroepen
- author
screenwriter - Relaties
- Newstein, Holly (partner)
- Organisaties
- Horror Writers Association
New England Horror Writers - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Bram Stoker Award (Lifetime Achievement ∙ 2011)
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I believe this is my first time reading this author, I have a few other books by him, unread, but I don't believe I have read anything else from him....unless it was years ago.
I was looking forward to reading this, the synopsis sounded chilling and vintage horrors are my fave....they are usually the best. Unfortunately, not this time. The synopsis wasn't even accurate.....there was no " beautiful dark haired woman". Only a teenage haunt that terrorizes the daughter....a little bit.
The book is about a man, John, his wife, Julia, and their daughter Bri, who move back to John's hometown in Main. They are there to live with his father, Frank, after his having had a stroke. John and Frank have a sour relationship and Julia is caught in the middle.
Frank is the only relatable, likable character.....outside of Randy, John's childhood friend, but he's not exactly a central character. Unfortunately Frank later dies. It took only four chapters for me to absolutely hate everyone else, by then John was already shown to be a selfish brute, who verbally abuses his wife pretty much every conversation. Julia is a spineless and weak woman who thinks of nothing but satisfying and catering to John, thereby perpetuating his disgusting behavior. Bri had already become uber annoying with her supposed loneliness for friends......they had only been in Main a single day, how onely can she be???
One seriously has to wonder if Rick Hautala has ever been around other human beings in his life. Outside of Frank, none of the characters react or converse like real people. They are seriously unbelievable.
The story itself isn't exactly bad.......its just not good. It drags on slowly, with surprisingly little happening. The plot was very transparent and easy to figure out...John buried his teenage love, Abby, after finding her dead from suicide, a death she blamed him for, as he didn't want to have the child she was carrying.
When the horror actually started, it ended shortly after. Abby spends the majority of the book haunting Bri....which makes zero sense, considering Bri isn't even John's biological child, and she's only been his stepchild for 5 years. John's eventual death is the only satisfying part of this book.
If this is Hautala's usual offering, I'm certainly not excited about reading the other books I have.… (meer)