Brian McNaughton (1935–2004)
Forfatter af The Throne of Bones
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Ringard and Dendra 2 eksemplarer
Nothing But The Best 2 eksemplarer
The Doom That Came to Innsmouth 2 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1935-09-23
- Dødsdag
- 2004-05-13
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- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
- Uddannelse
- Harvard University
- Erhverv
- journalist
horror writer
fantasy writer - Organisationer
- Newark Evening News
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- 16
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- 22
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- 316
- Popularitet
- #74,771
- Vurdering
- 3.7
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- 14
- ISBN
- 27
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This falls pretty solidly into the satanic/witch cults genre of horror literature and film so prevalent from the 60s-80s. You never know if your neighbor, wife, daughter, those hermit farmers, weird hippies, or literally anyone else in society might be secret satan worshipers, looking to kidnap and/or sexually exploit children and sacrifice babies. The same ideas that the satanic panic and religious right of the 80s decided were real instead of just fiction. We get some hints that this might be a stranger, less judeo-christian, world with to the supernatural goings on than mere satan worship though. Specifically, the nature of certain brothers and sisters begins to show that perhaps this is a more Lovecraftian universe. I believe the farther one gets in the series, the more 'weird' and less just 'horrific' it gets.
As is the case with all McNaughton's work, the prose is beautifully polished throughout. He is an expert wordsmith. However, the pacing feels distinctly uneven. This is fairly short for a novel, coming in at just 144 pages, but long compared to a lot of his short fiction work. I think the pacing suffers from trying to bridge the gap between the more action oriented demands of short fiction (barring atmospheric pieces) and the internal character driven demands of long-form work. We get just enough of characters internal lives to make us want to know more, but not enough for them to feel fully developed. Engaging, more action packed scenes that seem to drop too quickly into denoument. In some of his anthologized works like Throne of Bones, we see characters more fully explored and developed over longer sequences of tales, and I think that may be where McNaughton shines. If there's every an omnibus of this series of books published, it may be better to read them that way, though I'll reserve judgment until I've read the rest of the series.… (mere)