Category: Underrated Novels
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Bentley Little’s The Store: An Underrated Masterpiece
I don’t know why I’ve avoided Bentley Little for so long. I read his novel The Walking when it came out, and half of The Town years ago, but neither novel caught my attention so much that I stuck with him. That says more about me though than it does about Little, because after finally coming around to reading The…
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Christopher Pike: Master of 90’s Horror
There’s an odd juxtaposition between the world of YA literature pre-JK Rowling and everything that has come after. Harry Potter truly broke down the gates, allowing novels for teens to expand both in length and subject matter. Topics that were once taboo suddenly became commonplace, and themes once deemed too adult were now on the page…
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The Underrated Masterpiece: Stephen King’s “From a Buick 8”
Not that all of the horrors went unglimpsed. In the end, they glimpsed plenty. Any writer with a career as long and varied as Stephen King’s is going to have at least a couple novels that get overlooked. Some deservedly so. Others, however, get lost in the shuffle and never get a chance to shine.…
The Black Cat Moan 