tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post3765479543190718919..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: The Kind of Face You SLASH!!! - Day 1: The Beginning of a Whole New Way of Lifebill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-9023264676262307702010-10-02T11:35:04.181-04:002010-10-02T11:35:04.181-04:00Damn it! It is THE BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR!!
Can&...Damn it! It <i>is</i> THE BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR!!<br /><br />Can't I go one day without making a horrible factual error? Just one??bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-48580635859078854432010-10-02T10:52:20.434-04:002010-10-02T10:52:20.434-04:00Boy, reading Bill's coverage of the book and s...Boy, reading Bill's coverage of the book and seeing that great 70s-style cover make me really want to track down a copy.<br /><br />I contributed to <b>The Book of Lists: Horror</b> - don't know if it's the same book Bill is talking about but it probably is. Our book was originally going to be called <b>The Horror Book of Lists</b> but the publishing house wanted to preserve a sense of continuity with <b>The Book of Lists</b> from way back.Richard Harland Smithhttp://www.moviemorlocks.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-42663932816818112322010-10-01T16:11:59.100-04:002010-10-01T16:11:59.100-04:00Hmm, good question, but I think I rushed so headlo...Hmm, good question, but I think I rushed so headlong through the book that it seemed to not register as a ball Samson dropped. I often wonder how editors miss those kinds of things.Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-18839684605924629242010-10-01T15:14:05.843-04:002010-10-01T15:14:05.843-04:00Will, did you find the book a little strange at ti...Will, did you find the book a little strange at times, in the way Samson would just drop stuff, like the religious angle, particularly the Sunday School thing? Not that I minded, because I find horror's war on religion to be really boring, but it seemed off, the way she handled it.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-69524549003660189742010-10-01T14:40:31.094-04:002010-10-01T14:40:31.094-04:00I first heard of it in King's Danse Macabre re...I first heard of it in King's <i>Danse Macabre</i> reading list. I found it compulsively readable in a way few other horror novels I've read recently are. Yep, the way it all plays out is utterly plausible within the confines of the book.Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-41158882788550756592010-10-01T11:07:19.929-04:002010-10-01T11:07:19.929-04:00I don't know why the film was dropped. There&...I don't know why the film was dropped. There's almost no information, outside of other reviews of THE AUCTIONEER, about Samson or the film or anything else on-line. Did her death grind things to a halt? If so, why? Brad Dourif would have been great as Dunsmore.<br /><br />It's outsiders buying the auctioned items, but Samson doesn't a spend a lot of time on the "who", outside of that. Until the children are auctioned -- then we get a bit more texture. And it's outsiders buying the children, but I must say that is presented in a way that makes it entirely plausible, at least enough for the purposes of a work of fiction. Dunsmore sells it as an easier alternative to adoption. I'd have to quote way too much, probably, to bring it across, but Samson makes it work.<br /><br />And RHS may well be a contributor. I'll have to check it out again when I get home.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-84073691691099556712010-10-01T10:52:47.691-04:002010-10-01T10:52:47.691-04:00Wow, what a great and sinister horror movie this c...Wow, what a great and sinister horror movie this could make, if done right. It combines the sense of dread one gets with the rural, kind of half-educated characters often uses with the sinister, scheming urban characters, in this case, Dunsmore. The kind of horror movie where you never really see much of anything happening but everything keeps closing in all around you. I wonder why the movie was dropped. <br /><br />I do have a basic plot question: As they accumulate things to auction, who's buying them? And if it's outsiders, how could they possibly get away with auctioning children? If it's just the crazy locals, then okay. But outsiders and most of the suspension of disbelief is gone. <br /><br />Also, isn't Richard Harland Smith a contributor to that book of horror lists?Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com