It's a classic vampire story. It's wonderful -- you'll like it.
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
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Strix - Jan 15, 2005 2:25:19 pm PST #9444 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Amy - Jan 15, 2005 2:25:50 pm PST #9445 of 10001
Because books.
I developed a “The Supernatural in Literature” unit that I can’t WAIT to get a teaching job so I can use it.
Ooooh, I want to take this class! No Dracula, though?
I've never read Le Fanu either. But now I'm curious.
Strix - Jan 15, 2005 2:28:03 pm PST #9446 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I chose Jackson over Dracula basically because I think it's creepier and the writing is far better.
Beverly - Jan 15, 2005 2:33:38 pm PST #9447 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Plus, Dracula is on every list of the supernatural and the macabre. It's overexposed, whereas Jackson has fallen out of favor--or at least out of the limelight--in the last two decades. Time to introduce her to a new generation.
Which story was One for the Road, Erin? I think Night Shift may have been King at his best.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 15, 2005 2:35:15 pm PST #9448 of 10001
What is even happening?
My husband read 'Salem's Lot first, and for several nights he kept reading after I fell asleep, occasionally waking me up by saying, "Oh, shit!" I, of course, had to read it after that. I finished the book at about 3 a.m., and I really did get up and go to the refrigerator to make sure we had garlic in the house. Ah, Stephen King back when he was edited.I read it when I was a teenager. My father's twin was in the hospital dying. I visited him a lot. One day near the end, a lot of family was there. I went down to the solarium at the end of the wing. As I got to a particularly creepy part, the sun was setting. Soon after, we left the hospital. I'd driven over in my own car, and my folks had come, in their car. I got home first, and locked the fricking book in the trunk of my car, because it was dark, and I had to go in the house, alone.
Strix - Jan 15, 2005 2:37:19 pm PST #9449 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
OFTR is set in 'Salem's Lot...the people who get stuck in the car -- out-of-towners -- during a snow storm, and get turned into vampires. Three or four old timers debate on helping them, but it's too late.
Connie Neil - Jan 15, 2005 2:39:55 pm PST #9450 of 10001
brillig
read by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone
Ear-gasm ....
After I read Salem's Lot, every closet in my apartment was open for days, just so I'd know nothing was hiding in there.
edit: I would love to know what happened to the priest.
Strix - Jan 15, 2005 2:41:56 pm PST #9451 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think some of King's later works had the priest in them, I don't know which ones.
EDIT: Apparently, he appears in The Dark Tower.
Polter-Cow - Jan 15, 2005 2:46:45 pm PST #9452 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Heh. We were just talking about this over in the Angel Meet Market thread on TWoP. Apparently the priest (and I don't even remember what happened to him in the book, it was a few years ago) appears in one of the Dark Tower books. The fifth one, Wolves of the Calla.
Connie Neil - Jan 15, 2005 2:47:26 pm PST #9453 of 10001
brillig
I knew there was a reason to read Dark Tower.
Damn, the library's already closed.