James Lileks, of all people, gets into the spooky spirit with a great post about, among other things, Stephen King. I too find myself flipping through It around this time of year (in the beginning of the summer, it’s Night Shift and Skeleton Crew; at the end of summer, it’s The Stand; in the fall, it’s It). I go straight for the good parts, ask myself if they’ll be as good as I remember them, read them, and say to myself Yep, as good as I remember them. Which is to say it has all the simultaneous detail and power of a locomotive engine moving at full speed when it’s about three feet from your face.
Jason Adams went on a horror-DVD shopping spree, and also talks a bit about reading the copies of the Books of Blood that I lent him. Volume I really is just plain incredible, one story after another.
Finally, good enough, Jim, good enough!