Horror isn’t my thing either, but last night I surreptitiously signed up for a workshop examining interiority in Stephen King, and now I feel compelled to read this - it sounds BRILLIANT. WTF is happening to me? Must be the season. 🎃
Thanks Paulla. I'm all about interiority. The master of internality, Elena Ferrante, was a huge influence on all the interiority in THE DEADING. Stephen King is great at interiority though I don't always like the way he portrays his characters, because sometimes the women feel like men, or like objects of men's desires.
I agree with you, Nicholas. I think King is a great guy and weaves a compelling story, but he's also a product of his generation. Or maybe he's simply writing about a time/place where his character sees the world/women in those ways? What do you recommend by Ferrante? I've recently started reading My Brilliant Friend. And I look forward to reading The Deading because of the term, eco-horror, which I've never heard of, but it fascinates me!
I agree with you on King on both of those points. I recommend that entire Neapolitan series that you started. I think it really gets going to where you can't put it down around midway through book two, though it's a great internality craft study from the start. I also like her novel The Lying Life of Adults. Here's a little bit on eco-horror that I wrote for CrimeReads that gives a loose definition that I came up with: https://crimereads.com/crafting-the-real-and-surreal-in-eco-horror/
This is an impressive and deeply meaningful comparison between our work. It really shows how all literature, regardless of genre, if done right, etc., is part of this great cosmos of writing, that has at its heart, people. Thanks for this.
Horror isn’t my thing either, but last night I surreptitiously signed up for a workshop examining interiority in Stephen King, and now I feel compelled to read this - it sounds BRILLIANT. WTF is happening to me? Must be the season. 🎃
Thanks Paulla. I'm all about interiority. The master of internality, Elena Ferrante, was a huge influence on all the interiority in THE DEADING. Stephen King is great at interiority though I don't always like the way he portrays his characters, because sometimes the women feel like men, or like objects of men's desires.
I agree with you, Nicholas. I think King is a great guy and weaves a compelling story, but he's also a product of his generation. Or maybe he's simply writing about a time/place where his character sees the world/women in those ways? What do you recommend by Ferrante? I've recently started reading My Brilliant Friend. And I look forward to reading The Deading because of the term, eco-horror, which I've never heard of, but it fascinates me!
I agree with you on King on both of those points. I recommend that entire Neapolitan series that you started. I think it really gets going to where you can't put it down around midway through book two, though it's a great internality craft study from the start. I also like her novel The Lying Life of Adults. Here's a little bit on eco-horror that I wrote for CrimeReads that gives a loose definition that I came up with: https://crimereads.com/crafting-the-real-and-surreal-in-eco-horror/
Great - I’ll check it out!
This is an impressive and deeply meaningful comparison between our work. It really shows how all literature, regardless of genre, if done right, etc., is part of this great cosmos of writing, that has at its heart, people. Thanks for this.