Danse Macabre is a nonfiction book by Stephen King on horror fiction and United Statespop culture. Examining influences on his writing, it focuses on films and novels of the genre from a fan's perspective, discussing archetypes, narrative devices, and "the psychology of terror."
Examining influences on his writing, it focuses on films and novels of the genre from a fan 's perspective, discussing archetypes, narrative devices, and "the psychology of terror."
Well the book is a dark fantasy, and the first chapter is about old friends meeting at a bar and one of the guys does a magic card trick.
But DANSEMACABRE, his book-length essay on horror in pop culture, is like the seed-bed of everything I later came to dislike about King: a rambling conversational style, half Aesthete and half Reg'lar Folks and inauthentic as either; shameless name-dropping and boosterism; and a relentlessly middlebrow worldview powering the vehicle.
Lazy, jokey and even bad writing fills DANSEMACABRE from stem to stern, King trying to be both hip and square on every page; a completely unsatisfying compromise that reads as awkwardly now as office-workers must've looked in their tie-and-jeans ensembles on the first Casual Fridays.
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