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This is one of the best spooky books I've ever read. It's what Stephen King might write if he could write like Wallace Stegner.
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Somehow I never made my way to this beautifully written horror classic until now - perhaps seeing the film years ago utterly spooked me. The book is much worse, in terms of being terrifying, which means it’s much better. Murderous children, evil twins, increasing menace set in a bucolic American farm home, wind in the apple blossoms, blood in the orchard, how did I wait so long? Tryon has a touch of Henry James in his mastery of propelling a story forward from the inside, building dread while lu
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I was very impressed with the writing in this book. I guess I had expected that as a real genre (horror) book, it would have some cool and gory scenes in it, but didn't have high hopes for the writing style itself, especially since I knew that this was the first book from a Hollywood actor (and heart-throb at that). But the writing is actually real good. Both the descriptions of small-town rural New England farm life, but also the more psychological portraits of the extended Perry family and the
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Creepy and suspenseful, this atmospheric New England gothic is a rewarding and highly literary chiller.
Oct 17, 2012
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Oct 18, 2023
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