Not a fanif there's anything that King's written that is skippable I put dance Macabre his non-fiction kind of treatise on the horror genre or history of the horror genre at the top of that list
Danse Macabre (1980)
Others: Negative This is a non-fiction study of the horror genre including books, movies, television, etc.
- ISBN:
- 9781439170984
- Length:
- 462 pages
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