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I didn’t find it all that scary, though as a horror fan, I loved what I was reading.

The narrative richly played in my head as though I were watching a film, and I can well imagine this would make an entertaining hour and a half movie. It’s a novella at best, so though it’s available in a hardback book, don’t think you’re getting hours of reading material. Seriously, Khaw’s narrative captures the imagination, especially for anyone with a love of true literature. Plus you lose all the timing of the scare and the visuality of the horror. But it all comes off like a repeat of Scream.

I guess it’s hard not to have the characters realize they’re in a horror movie when there are so many tropes. This means I forgot who they were half the time, even though there are only five.The more horror I read, the less I like it as a genre/medium. Barry Lyga says “Small, insignificant actions like ‘looking’ or ‘blinking’ or ‘swallowing’ or ‘narrowing eyes’ distract to the reader and make the story unnecessarily longer.” This is coupled with there being too much telling about the characters, not showing, because the narrative is told through a single POV. The dialogue keeps getting interrupted with some observation, facial tic, or other analysis of the narrative.That means the story gets no chance to flow.

I think this is short enough to be called a novella, so I’d like to know how this got a publisher, because I’ve got some novellas I’d like to submit.There’s some beautifully written prose in here, but at the cost of narrative flow.

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