![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s also a story about death, and loss, and letting go. “Pop Art” is about a “tough kid” and his friendship with the class bully-bait, a boy named Arthur with a hereditary condition: he was born inflatable. “Better than Home” is a sweet story of an autistic boy’s relationship with his father, the coach of a losing baseball team. My two favorite stories aren’t horror one isn’t even fantastic. For instance, in one story, the ghosts of previous abduction victims find a way to help the current kidnapped child. The supernatural instead often serves a positive function in the story. Some of the tales could be classified as supernatural horror, but the horror element isn’t from the supernatural, but from the prosaic: a child predator, or from some latent sociopathic tendencies in one of the characters. There’s a certain ambiguity in how mothers are represented, leaning towards the negative. Autism and other developmental disabilities. It’s interesting to see the themes that repeat in multiple stories: Sons’ relationships with their fathers, or with their brothers - sometimes positive, sometimes not. ![]() 20th Century Ghosts is mostly a mix of horror and fantastic realism, with a few mainstream fictions thrown in. Hill is King’s son, and also writes horror, as well as mainstream fiction. I found this in the “Customers Also Bought” section while buying an ebook version of Stephen King’s Different Seasons - another great collection. ![]()
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