(That’s how he thinks of them.) He wears a gas mask and speaks in moronic but well-turned rhymes. Yes, Bing is a ghastly figure who uses stolen anesthetic gas on the children’s mommies.
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“NOS4A2” is full of chills and cliffhangers, but it never turns needlessly grotesque. Hill writes, “she had been trying to do for him ever since.” “What Charlie Manx had not been able to do,” Mr. Was Vic abused and traumatized by Manx when she was a kid, or is that only something she imagines? Whatever happened, she grew up to be self-destructive. Hill keeps his story’s occult elements neat, and he relies on fantasy only when it has some dramatic purpose. King’s books slide into dreamy realms and stay there. Vic named her son Bruce Wayne, a k a Batman.) But these fantasy-reality transitions can be more dangerous for writers than they are for characters some of Mr.
This has been going on since she was a girl, and years later, when she has a son, she’s still taking it for granted. Vic can conjure a Shorter Way Bridge that takes her and her bike to unexpected places. Hill gets maximum chills by invoking tunes like “A Holly Jolly Christmas.” He also names the book’s ugliest character Bing. Which is scarier: bloodsucking vampires or the unexpected sound of treacly Christmas music suddenly playing in the summer? Mr. Hill’s imagination is much more far-ranging than that. And “NOS4A2” is not really a vampire story, anyway Mr. The book’s villain is a wizened ghoul who tries to lure children to a place where it is always Christmas, with fun features like a Sleigh House, and you don’t have to be Cassandra to know there’s something nasty about that. Murnau’s classic vampire movie, loves playing with words. When she says “Come on, honey” as the story goes into high gear, she’s talking to that bike. She is a brave biker chick named Vic McQueen, who rides a Triumph, of course. Hill envisions an epic battle between real and imaginary worlds, makes this fight credible and creates a heroine who can recklessly crash from one realm to the other. (It was followed by “Horns” in 2010.) This time Mr. This novel, his third, is a much bigger book than the earlier ones, though “Heart-Shaped Box” (2007) was as full of uncanny assurance as uncanny tricks. “I don’t regret it.” This is a nice way of saying that his father, Stephen King, writes horror novels but that he, Joseph Hillstrom King, has the brass to write them too.Īnd to do it excitingly well. “I guess I have been cruising his back roads my whole life,” Mr.
His father, “a Harley snob,” admires the Triumph but says its engine reminds him of a sewing machine. Joe Hill takes a cheery little Oedipal swipe at his father in the acknowledgment pages of his throat-grabbing new novel, “NOS4A2.” He describes the two of them riding back roads on motorcycles, Mr.
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