Clive Barker's Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story
I have issues with Clive Barker. In theory I should love him, the gore factor, the homoeroticism, the 80s, etc., but somehow I find his books inherently forgettable and that annoys me because I really want to love him and he insists on making that so hard for me. I keep being surprised by books of his, they jump out at me from nowhere and I discover I’ve read them and just couldn’t remember a damn thing about them. (Actually the reason CB keeps cropping up in my house at the moment is that my husband has suddenly developed something of a big boy crush on him and his novels keep dropping through my letterbox with alarming regularity and startling me with their familiarity). When I read the blurb about Coldheart Canyon I thought that it was going to be right up my street: A Hollywood Ghost Story, it promised me, I love old Hollywood, I love ghost stories, this has to be the Clive Barker book for me! Also, one irate Amazon reviewer described it as: ‘far from what I would call horro
Cool! I just found out about the horror blogger alliance today! Congrats on getting added in! :D
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the gang. Hope you brought your switchblade. We're rumbling with the Sharks later this week...
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Thanks, TK. It is wicked cool.
ReplyDeleteJonny, I'm so down with that! Just wish I had three years of contemporary jazz under my belt so I can keep up, but I do have excellent rhythm and a switchblade concealed in my boot heel so maybe you'll still let me tag along.