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Cargando... The Pet (edición 1987)por Charles L. Grant (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. [[Charles L. Grant]] is another author who rates a mention in Stephen King's [Danse Macabre], which I have been using as a masters class of sorts in horror writing. Uncle Stevie lists Grant's [The Sound of Midnight] as one of his favorites. [The Pet] is a terribly creative story, detailing a teenager's psychic ability to bring the posters of animals on his walls to life - mind you, not so much as spirit animals but more avenging terrors. It will be awhile before I look at a horse in the same way I used to, as noble an benevolent rather than blood-lusty. The sheer creativity with which Grant draws the terror out is masterful, both in the creation of the avenging animal and the lengthening of the tension. And the story ends with a not-so-mainstream twist. 4 bones!!!! Recommended!!!! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Teenagers are being slaughtered by the Howler, a serial killer who stops in small towns just long enough to kill, just long enough to tear apart a family and a community. When he strikes in Ashford, the town reacts-setting limits on teens' activities, monitoring who goes where-and parents become paranoid. Seventeen-year-old Don Boyd doesn't need the grief. He's already under siege-he's got family trouble, girl trouble, trouble with his high school classes and trouble with the jocks who rule the school. Surely the Howler will kill someone else, somewhere else, and then Don can go back to trying to escape notice. But the Howler likes Ashford. And one frosty autumn night, the Howler chooses Don as his next victim. The attack is swift-but it doesn't go as planned. Suddenly the killer and the boy are surrounded by an unnatural mist, by green fire, by the sound of iron striking iron. And then the real horror begins. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Perhaps the story suffered from being stretched too thin over so many bases. We have the serial killer story which doesn't last long, the teenage angst thread running throughout which does get a bit wearing unfortunately, and the spectral horse plot. Plus the irresponsible and unpleasant behaviour of the boy's parents. The story did seem to sag a bit in the middle, and although the 'good guys' in the story, especially the girl he has a crush on - can't really be love given how he treats her - have more life to them - the girl is the most sympathetic character in the book - and in theory the reader should be concerned when they also start to be menaced, the overall effect, I'm afraid, is a 'so what'. Nasty people get stomped on so there isn't much to be concerned about, and the ending is rather a cliche. So only a 2-star rating. ( )