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Bezig met laden... Dark Godsdoor T. E. D. Klein
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I enjoyed all 4 novellas; I certainly did not allow the lack of political correctness to interfere with my enjoyment of the story.....I understand how Klein was using it as a literary device. Now why is it that Stephen King is still churning out his novels that I no longer care to read and Klein suffers from writers block? Ass-backwardness and Murphy's Law, I suppose. The injustice of it all..... "Children of the Kingdom" is a classic now, but still just as unsettling to read as it was back in the 1970's. "Petey" is a lovely story where the reader never comes face-to-face with the monster, there are only glimpses from the edge of vision and it's not pretty. "Black Man With A Horn" is an homage to HPL and a fun little tale of cosmic horror. At mid-life, "Nadelman's God" has taken over as my fave of the four novellas. Probably because at my age I can sit back and say, "I can think of all kinds of uses for a 'servant' like that; too bad Nadelman was so squeamish about it!" First, I would like to say thank you to my friend Ryan Cagle for so kindly sending me a copy of this book. Thanks, Ryan! Second, this collection of 4 novellas was a find example of literary horror fiction. The stories were well written, dripping with creepy atmosphere, and thought provoking. There were some Lovecraftian references that I enjoyed, as well as a few shudder provoking scenes; most especially with the first novella, Children of the Kingdom. Well done! Highly recommend for fans of literary horror fiction! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Four stories, "Children of the Kingdom," "Petey," "Black Man With a Horn," and "Nadelman's God," deal with creatures of the urban night, a hungry beast, a ritual murder, and terrifying apparitions. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The second story is both much more effectively creepy but also unfortunately very very explicitly racist! I kept reading in the hope it was just a character thing but nope! It's set in 70s NYC, with the constant background of the "crime wave". And it's presented in an incredibly racist way. And without spoiling the horror part of the end, there's a "horde" of Black people and other minority groups at the end and they're not only bad and dangerous criminals, looting etc, but written to directly parallel dangerous and bad inhuman creatures. It's racist as hell. Lovecraft would be proud.
Then the next story is called "black man with a horn". And it opens with a Lovecraft quote. Do I trust a story in this context to not just be incredibly racist again? Probably not. Maybe I'll call it there