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Critical Consensus for 11/12: Stephen King’s Under the Dome

BNA_Daily | November 12, 2009

Stephen King’s latest thriller, Under the Dome, hit shelves Tuesday, just a few days shy of Friday the 13th.  The novel is over 1,000 pages long, but it’s safe to say it moves faster than War and Peace.  In Under the Dome, the small town of Chester’s Mill, Maine, suddenly finds itself under an impenetrable, [...]

Daily Lit Links for 10/30: Spotlight on Stephen King

BNA_Daily | October 30, 2009

Just in time for Halloween, Stephen King is popping up everywhere in the lit-blog world.  The master of horror has several projects in the works, including a vampire series told through serial comics and a 1,000+ page thriller.  His stories are also being used in an anthology tracing American horror and our obsession with being [...]

Pulp Zombie Fiction

BNA_Editor | February 24, 2009

It might seem like a bad pun, but there are few literary genres that have been as vibrant and animated lately as zombie fiction. While zombies have been around for a long time, there’s been a veritable undead renaissance over the past few years, spawned from a wide body of works ranging from Max Brooks‘ [...]

The Current State of Horror Fiction

D_DAmmassa | February 3, 2009

There are undoubtedly numerous reasons why readers might enjoy horror fiction, but one frequent suggestion is that supernatural events suggest the possibility that existence does not necessarily have to be entirely rational and logical. If the Devil and evil exist, then so too must God and goodness. If we feel constrained by rules imposed by [...]