I preface this by doing I haven’t read anything for fun since like middle school, and even then, it was scary stories to tell in the dark. My gf reads a lot of fantasy, (Sarah J Mass) and our most recent books a million trip, I decided to randomly buy a book. I figured short stories by Steven King, it’s got to be worth it for someone like me. So far I’m extremely disappointed, 3 chapters in, the writing feels so dated, each chapter has mentioned covid, characters don’t talk like real people, and it’s just not scary. I mention all this to say that I want to find something that invokes the wonder I felt like what I remember about scary stories to tell in the dark, I guess that’s what I was expected, but not as plainly written and boring as what I’m trying out now. Horror from a book is still what I want to be drawn to, and I don’t want fantasy. I want the characters to feel real, I was the dialogue to feel real, and I want it to be scary, whether it be from supernatural elements or not. And what I don’t want is fantasy, seeing my house covered in Sarah j mass books has kind of ruined that idea for me. I kid, kind of. Sorry for the word vomit.
by lovesky90