![]() ![]() But Mr Gaunt would like something in return, if you don’t mind… As in the best King novels, the real threat is the friendly neighbour, the unassuming gym teacher, the local cop. ![]() It has something perfect for every Castle Rock resident, and isn’t that just a happy little coincidence? And such good prices! Why, they’re practically a steal. Set in Castle Rock, Maine, mysterious stranger Leland Gaunt arrives and opens up his curiosity shop, ‘Needful Things’. King at his pinnacle, in my humble opinion. I, for one, have never since swum in a lake or a pool without picturing a dark shadow moving slowly beneath my vulnerable, naked feet, a black-eyed killing machine perfected over millennia. The shark persists, rapacious and invisible, making mincemeat of both the tender tourists and a small community’s psyche. Never mind that the biggest threat to Amity is in fact its passively murderous town council, whose decision to leave the beaches (and cash registers) open to frolicking, juicy swimmers results in the death of a child (chomp!) – it’s the unseen menace lurking in the glittering ocean that has inspired decades of readers (and moviegoers) to declare they’ll never go in the water again. Where else to begin? Take your summer vacation on the picture-postcard beaches of Amity Island, where mainland dollars reign supreme and our dogged hero, Detective Brody, slowly loses his mind over the course of an interminable summer in the pursuit of Nature’s greatest predator. Not very Goth of me, I know, but try it for yourself with my top ten list of summer horror reading, and you’ll be a convert. I love reading horror in the summer, I love the contrast of being sucked into a dark, spooky story during the bright cheer of a sunny afternoon. To look up from the page – distressed, wary, pulse racing – and encounter the world in neon reality. But I relish the experience of rising dread under the glare of the summer sun. We’re supposed to imagine the ghosts breathing down our necks as chill drafts leak through door frames and night descends earlier with each passing day. Colber, a mad scientist obsessed with time travel actually figured out how to make it work! But in doing this, every time he got one of his subjects into another time period, that time period itself looked at them as a virus and wiped them out! Obsessed with trying to make this work, he sent more and more of his employees into the time machine until he ran out of time, money, and subjects… Which brought him to a brilliant idea! Disguise his time machine as a haunted house! Now, he has end endless supply of human guinea pigs to use in his experiment, and better yet… they unknowingly fund the program.Everyone knows that horror novels are meant to be read on a winter’s evening, curled up in the dark while the wind howls and rain drums the windows. Erebus opened it's doors in 2000 and has gained national recognition as being one of the top haunts as well as earning the Guinness Book of World Records for the worlds longest walk-through haunted attraction in August of 2005, We held the title until September of 2009! Erebus leads it's victims through four stories of unique and terrifying paths with fear so intense some call it PAIN! The Erebus Time Machineĭr. Erebus was founded by Ed and Jim Terebus, Veterans of the Haunt Industry since 1981.
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