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Originally posted by EXTR3MIST
His recent short story collection Everything's Eventual is a good one - rather than rely on solid mythical creatures (like Rice and her vampires) or whacky surrealism and monsters (like Barker) King's stories can still take the reader into unpredictable territory without resorting to "clever" techniques (witness the new added control on the vehicle in The Tommyknockers: "Left, Right and... up?".
From Everything's Eventual, read The Death Room - simple, daring, and immensely satisfying.
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i havent read Rice but I used to read Barker ... he was once ok but he never knew how to end a story. He became very King-ish in his style too.
I think the problem might be in the genre itself .. its hard to develop new ideas - everything has been done over and over again .. sometimes with slight variations .. or sometimes its a direct rehashing (Stephen King).
I stopped reading horror years ago .. i couldnt stand it any more. The only writers who broke the mold usually did so by churning out some incomprehensible personal nightmare that was impossible to relate to. Or they combine trace elements of horror with the other genres which is at least a little more origional and entertaining.
I've read Herbert, MCCammeron (sp. ?) Strawb, and a couple dozen other authors and i keep seeing the same old crap over and over again.
But Stephen King ... i'll never read another word from that guys keyboard again.
I couldnt get more than 20 pages into that smug piece of shit he wrote with strawb last (bleak house, or dark house or something like that)
Never again ...