Caltrops - Dead Trees





	[quote name="Lizard_King"][quote name="Fullofkittens"] Part of it, I'm sure, is marketing. A lot (a majority?) of King's readers are young adults. It's just like how Lifetime movies are all about pathetic stay-at-home moms whose husbands have affairs and plot to kill them: they're written in such a way that the targeted audience is in the feature role. FoK[/quote] [quote name="FoK"] Another possibility (conjecture only) is that King is hoping to tap into the fact that, though most of us were afraid of things that go bump in the night when we were kids, as adults we generally aren't. Perhaps he's trying to get his readers back into a more childlike frame of reference in which clowns are still scary to us. Or perhaps he likes to fuck little boys, I don't know. Interesting, that in his favorite horror novel of the 70's (as of his writing of <i>Danse Macabre</i>), Peter Straub's <i>Ghost Story</i> a large portion of the book takes place with a little girl in bondage. [/quote] I think you're right on both counts. Interesting that I feel less disturbed reading, say, Clive Barker's distinctly perverse brand of horror than most of King's stuff...I guess giving the choice of which lens to view the world through, I'll take an exceptionally twisted homosexual over a pedophile, any day. OT, is there anything really good being written in horror these days? I'm reduced to nonfiction almost exclusively these days.[/quote]