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Cujo

A Rabid Dog. A Trapped Mother. Author: Stephen King It’s pointless to summarize the story of Cujo – we all know it after all. A woman and her toddler son get stuck in a car out in the middle of nowhere, a rabid dog waiting outside to end their lives. It’s a claustrophobic story of real horror, a tragedy that bears weight because it could happen. But there is so much more to it, a feral sort of magic that takes it beyond reading and makes it into an experience that is both horrifying and oddly beautiful. Donna and Vic [...]

2022-03-13T17:13:07-07:00March 13th, 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Elementals, The

Creatures In the Sand Author: Michael McDowell After a gruesome funeral with a ritualistic twist, the Savage family returns to their ancestral summer home to recover and help the family matriarch dry out and avoid a divorce. The Savage’s hereditary summer land, Beldame, is a tongue of barren sand that is cut off by water at certain parts of the day while it sizzles in the stifling heat, isolated and dangerous. At Beldame there are three old houses, each identical. The family stays in two of the houses. The other house is abandoned and is being steadily swallowed by a dune. [...]

2022-03-11T21:30:01-07:00March 11th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Count of Monte Cristo, The

How Far Would You Go for the Perfect Revenge? Author: Alexandre Dumas At 19 Edmond Dantes has everything he could ever want: a devoted fiancé, an impending wedding, a loving and self-sacrificing father, and soon the job of captain. He is doing well. Too well. His shipmate is vengeful, his downstairs neighbor weak and jealous, his soon-to-be-wife’s thwarted admirer desolate and angry. And so, Dantes’ good fortune becomes a curse. Through conniving and circumstance, his enemies see to his arrest on the day that would be his wedding. Fourteen-years later, the man who escapes prison is not the same naïve and [...]

2022-02-13T14:15:06-07:00February 13th, 2022|Tags: , , , , |
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