This review is part of the Cannonball Read series. For anyone who wants to write good horror, I would highly recommend giving it a gander. The medium gets sexually abused by haunts in a manner not inappropriate in a particularly un-censor friendly episode of “Law and Order: SVU.” What Matheson loses in his characters, he makes up for in the wringer he puts them through. The horror does not content itself with mere poltergeistery. It’s almost like a strange little off-broadway play of The Haunting of Hill House.Įmbarrassing treatment of female characters aside, it’s a pretty ferocious little horror story. The female characters spend their time alternating between histrionics and wanton nudity, and the men ponder and grouse. The story lunges forward with this gruesome jabs where characters are suddenly calling each other fucking lesbians and becoming violently sexual towards one another. It felt simultaneously old world and fiercely modern. It was weirdly anachronistic, almost like hearing about a Chrysler in A Merchant of Venice. It’s a haunted house story, set in 1970, but it felt more like 1870. It almost read like Shirley Jackson, or Poe. Matheson’s other works, which I’m anxious too.
However, someone else got this rec into me before I could delve into any of Mr. I’ve never read I Am Legend, but was told to.
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