![]() ![]() ![]() But little girls on fire-! Man, after The Exorcist, everybody must've hated 'em. Blame the decidedly mediocre film version. ![]() ![]() I certainly don't think of him as a forgotten horror novelist awaiting rediscovery. To this day I have no idea who author Frank De Felitta is or what happened to him. If you want to read John Saul and Frank De Felitta, go right ahead. Most of them are just downright bad, and I have no taste for the job of beating the field's most spectacular violators with their shortcomings. I was probably inclined to think so by Stephen King, who wrote in Danse Macabre (1981): "A novel of reincarnation" makes it sound more like "housewife horror" to me than anything cool, bloody, or really fucked up. When I worked in a used bookstore in the late '80s it seemed everybody wanted to trade in their busted-ass copy we had dozens of them (along with other '70s moldy-oldies Jaws, The Flame and the Flower, Jonathan Livingston Seagul l, and Love Story - that last title many Americans' sole enriching literary experience of the decade, Harlan Ellison once said). I have never had any interest in reading Audrey Rose, one of the quintessential bestselling horror novels of the mid-1970s. ![]()
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