|
Watching a horror movie can be a great experience. They can twist your perceptions, make you fear monsters and maniacs both real and imagined, and show you things that would become the genesis of nightmares and sleepless nights. But movies are limited; even when the time comes that special effects allow moviemakers to create any world imaginable, they will still only be able to create the world of their imagination and populate it with people and things borne out of their minds.
Not so with books. Even a poorly written story can give rise in the reader's imagination--if the reader is willing--wonderful worlds, each inexplicable and utterly personal. At its best, a story is a merging of two separate histories and identities, like two people working on a masterpiece painting; the writer traces the outlines, but the reader provides the shades, the colors, the textures. Reading is exercise and enrichment for the mind and the soul.
|
The Amityville Horror ·
The Amityville Horror II ·
Blair Witch: Book of Shadows ·
Cabal ·
A Christmas Carol ·
The Dark Half ·
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer ·
Doctor Who: The Bodysnatchers ·
Doctor Who: Vampire Science ·
The House Next Door ·
Needful Things ·
|
