“Burnt Offerings” by Robert Marasco is a 1974 haunted house novel that supposedly influenced Stephen King’s 1977 horror classic “The Shining.” I haven’t seen ay first hand verification by King himself that Marasco was an influence, but for what it’s worth, he lists “Burnt Offerings” in the Appendix to his non-fiction book about the post-World War Two horror genre, “Dance Macabre” (which is a must-read for any horror fan). He even asterisked “Burnt Offerings” in his Appendix, which denotes that he believed it to be “particularly important” to the genre.
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Horror Fiction Book Review – Doctor Sleep, by Stephen King
As one of my favorite blogs recently said, the golden age of Stephen King is the age of thirteen. I was a huge fan from the ages of eleven to fourteen, and devoured his early work. I recently re-read a few of his earlier works, including “The Shining,” so when I saw that its belated sequel, “Dr. Sleep” (the latter was published in 2013, or 36 years after the publication of The Shining), was on sale on Kindle, I decided to give it a whirl. I’d say it was a mixed bag.
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