7/6/2023 0 Comments Books like the shiningStill, like a fast short-orderĬook during the breakfast rush, he serves up the scary stuff with unremitting dexterity. Tryon, however, because he lacks the sly craftsmanship of the former, at his best, and the narrative strength of the latter. Who probably make up the large hard core of the market. His long suit is an energetic and febrile imagination and a radar fix on the young people Ranked on a scale of from 0 to Ira Levin and Thomas Tryon, to name two leading practitioners in this vein, he would score, I should say, about a 75. Were best sellers in paperback, having been given a considerable boost by the popularity of the movie of "Carrie." Judging from his latest novel, "The Shining," he is a writer of fairly engaging and preposterous claptrap. Tephen King is one of the hottest novelists currently working the horror-occult genre. MaSomething Nasty in the Tub By RICHARD R.
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