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Jamie Stewart is a horror author and editor. His books include PRICE MANOR: THE HOUSE THAT BLEEDS, I HEAR THE CLATTERING OF THE KEYS (AND OTHER FEVERS DREAMS) and MR. JONES. He has co-edited such anthologies as WELCOME TO THE FUNHOUSE for BLOOD RITES HORROR and THE SACRAMENT, which is coming this October from DARK LIT PRESS. His short stories can be found in various anthologies, podcasts and Youtube channels.

Jamie lives in Northern Ireland with his wife and dogs, Poppy and Henry. He can be found on Instagram @jamie.stewart.33 where he reviews and promotes books.

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Rage is a novel about high school student Charlie Decker murdering a teacher and holding his classmate’s hostage. While the police try to negotiate with Charlie, he turns his classmates into a group therapy session about his woes. It’s a heavy premise, and unfortunately, it’s not well executed, partly because the bile that Charlie spills Read more of this blog post »

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The Stand

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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" The Stand

The Stand is a huge book, not just for its 1000 plus pages, but in the radiating effect it’s had on literature. Looking back now you can see how it’s become a bench mark for every post-apocalyptic that’s come out since. Unfortunately, I fe The Stand

The Stand is a huge book, not just for its 1000 plus pages, but in the radiating effect it’s had on literature. Looking back now you can see how it’s become a bench mark for every post-apocalyptic that’s come out since. Unfortunately, I feel that this was something of a negative for me on this reread as I was constantly reminded of other works that have ripped off pieces of this book.

All my memories of reading The Stand concern being in awe by the level of detail that King depicts the world falling apart. I’m still in awe of it, and really this novels best section is the first third called Captain Trips, which details the destruction of humanity by the escape of a man-made super flu. Allow the story is very much confined to the US and because of the breakdown in society the characters don’t know if the rest of the world is affected by Captain Trips. We get introduced to a wide variety of characters from various different location across the states who are immune to the flu, providing us with various different experiences. Stu Redman for example is imprisoned in an early attempt at containment then becomes the focus of study due to his immunity. Lloyd Henreid is trapped inside a prison, unable to get free while the rest of its population rot. Frannie Goldsmith is dealing with the fact that only has she survived while her parents didn’t, she’s also pregnant in a world without doctors, or rules, or order.

These are a number of sequences in this first third that for me will forever be some of King’s best work. Sequences such as Frannie attempting to tell her parents, including her dominating mother (similar to Susan Norton’s in Salem’s Lot), a troupe King returns to again and again. Larry Underwood escaping from New York and travelling underneath one of its bridges (a highlight for many readers as the books scariest scene). These are coupled with small vignettes that King uses to show how the rest of the country is falling apart, my favourite and it’s my favourite scene in the entire book, is where a nameless woman who is terrified of the opposite sex kills herself rather than receive help from a man.

Yes, it’s a weird scene to call my favourite, but it’s the level of emotion in it that King invokes that shocked me when I was 13 and still shocks me now. Each time I read it I think that the male character might not mean her harm. That’s the brilliance of King, he’s able to create such feeling with the little amount of words. And in The Stand we get the biggest page count with his characters.

Sadly, it’s not all excellence. As the Captain Trips section ends our cast are experiencing dreams either of a figure of good, Mother Abigail, or one of evil, The Walkin’ Dude.

Let’s take a moment to appreciate how cool a name like The Walk-in’ Dude is.

Anyway, it’s all excellent. This is early King territory, so his cast are split between good and evil by who they chose to follow. What’s interesting is the characters aren’t exactly fully one way or the other. They all have their flaws and their virtues. Yet, either is all good or all evil, which begs the question why some people only get good dreams and some people get bad dreams. Its a bit to black and white picture for me, but nothing to moan about. What I will moan about though is how much the story bogs down in the second section of the book.

Those that side with Mother Abigail either journey to her or follow her to Boulder whereas those that side with The Walkin’ Dude AKA Randall Flagg, a big bad we will meet again, go to Las Vegas. As mentioned before the detail King gives to the world crumbling continues allowing readers to feel every mile characters spend on the road, and that’s fine until they all arrive in Boulder.

The reason I say Boulder is we aren’t given much about the Vegas side at all. King talks about The Stand as being his own Vietnam, how he had started this gigantic work and couldn’t figure out how to end it. It shows in this second act as we are subjected to countless conversations and meetings about the same thing. It’s the closest I’ve come in my reread that I wanted to skim read. His solution to this issue was to set off a bomb, which he does and allows the novel to get a sense of direction again, kicking it into the third act, The Stand.

For me while I loved this story in my youth I fear it hasn’t aged as well for me. Some characters don’t stand out as the should, it suffers from a bloated, repetitive middle and it has a lot of copiers that dull some of the impact the ending of the world scenes have. ...more "

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Golden Fox (Courtney publication, #8; Courtney chronological, #22)

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“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
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“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
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“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
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