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Originally posted by Dr.Kelvinstein
The best Ed Gein-related fiction, however, is the Cormac McCarthy novel Child Of God. It's a beautiful southern Gothic about Lester Ballard, a poor white-trash outcast in rural Tennessee who loses his home and is completely shunned by everyone in his community. He starts collecting dead women for companionship and is soon dressing in their clothes and braying at the moon. What's really clever about the novel is that you don't hate or fear Lester as you do Leather Face or Hannibal Lector. You simply pity him. He's a really sad individual who just needs to be loved. A very touching book, and McCarthy's prose is like reading poetry. Beautiful stuff.
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mccarthy is awesome! i don't know where the man got his vocabulary but it's the most formiddable of any writer i think i've ever come across. very very dark and brooding, there never seemed even a glimmer of hope in his books that i've read.
henry is one of the best horror movies ever i'd say. if it is a horror movie.
'say that again otis'