Danse MacabreCamille Saint Saens, Percy Hall
Danse Macabre
by Camille Saint Saens, Percy Hall
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…his best early work was "Get blitzed on Schlitz and cocaine, and get to it" I think in On Writing, he claims to have almost no recollection of writing Cujo. Seriously, though, reading On Writing or Danse Macabre is fun. His style, as I recall is come up with a premise and characters, amd tell the story they lead you to. His experiments with more formal planning and plotting he feels are weaker.
on “Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? (2015)” ↗There was a long period of time where he _was_ ignored and underrated, up until 1981, when Stephen King gave him a shoutout in his book about horror writing (Danse Macabre) and the Call of Cthulhu RPG was published. Until then, his books were entirely an underground phenomenon, and even then it wasn't until the early 2000s or late 1990s that Cthulhu was anything but a…
on “The King in Yellow” ↗