Undivine Interventions: Reviews of Horror Novels, Past and Present.

It's been quite a while since I've cracked into some "ancient horror history", outside of a few republished books, and I am glad to have returned to it. These classics, often referred to these days as "Paperbacks from Hell", are essentially why I started the blog in the first place. It was a bit of a struggle to pick the right one to get back into the swing of it. I started another book, one that was 600 pages, that was just too slow-moving, and frankly, daunting in its size and prose.  I put that one aside for another time, before settling into this, a slightly safer bet. I recently read and reviewed Joseph Citro's excellent book Shadow Child, his first work published, which made me feel this, Dark Twilight AKA Lake Monsters, was going to be a very safe bet for a good, well-written time. Well-written, it was, for sure. But much, much less fun than Shadow Child.  There's some cool things about Dark Twilight, but really it's just far too slow and ...