FearZone Column: Achieved

[handful_ofdust]

A loving dissertation on Robert R. McCammon's insane 1980 possessive Amazon ghosts vs. psychic Vietnam vet thriller, Bethany's Sin--1,330 words, and off to FearZone, along with a huge .jpg of the original U.S. front cover. My work here is done. (It should be up near the end of December; I'll post a link, as usual.)

Comments

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

i have only the most vague memories of reading then when i was about ten or so.
perhaps i should look into reading it again.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Perhaps! But I have to make this clear: My ambivalence about the entire subject matter/execution forms a very large part of my continued guilty love for this particular deranged artifact.

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

oh fuck, Bethany's Sin. That one didn't mess me up anywhere near the way The Night Boat did (and that because of my abiding love for Shock Waves-- the DVD of which is actually sitting on my desk right now awaiting a re-watch), but man, did I love that book. I spent years tracking down McCammon's first four novels after reading and loving Usher's Passing. Needless to say, as soon as Baal completed my collection, Swan Song came out, McCammon got huge, and they reprinted them all. Bastards!

(I tried to do the first-line thing, and seventeen first-lines in, the computer jugged on me and I lost the reply. It was great-- Antaeus has never before jammed up against Depeche Mode in such a weird way...)

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Hah, Baal! Another amazing jolt of young-writer hubris. I re-read it far more often than I probably should.;)

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

I haven't done so in far too long. I should dig my copy out...