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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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‘ [...]
Category: horror fiction |
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Tags: horror, pulp fiction, zombies
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 [...]
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