Everyone needs a friend like Alice: someone that is willing to give you hard truths, even if it risks losing the friendship.

Burt accese la radio. Il volume era troppo alto, ma non lo abbassò perché erano lì lì per litigare di nuovo e lui non voleva che accadesse. Disperatamente desiderava che non accadesse. I discepoli del corvo (cortometraggio, 1983) · Grano rosso sangue (1984) · Grano rosso sangue II - Sacrificio finale (1993) · Grano rosso sangue 3 - Urban Harvest (1995) · Inferno a Grand Island (1996) · Gli adoratori del male (1998) · Children of the Corn 666 - Il ritorno di Isaac (1999) · Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) · Campi insanguinati (film TV, 2009) · Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011) · Children of the Corn: Runaway (2018) That little show of paranoia should show you that I’m a bit of a masochist when it comes to horror. It should also indicate you that most of the stars given to this short story collection come from King’s talent to scare me shitless. From electronic appliances from hell to the torture of memories, these tales bring to your door a big bag of uncomfortable feelings and triggers for insomnia. Among the ones that impacted me the most are:I Am The Doorway - 5 Stars - This is one of my favourite short horror stories of all time. I should say that horror fiction rarely scares me, but this freaks me out. It’s the story of an former astronaut whose been exposed on his last mission to an alien mutagen. King rarely does body horror, yet when he does it’s always excellent and this story contains some of his best as this stories protagonist begins to transform. It’s also unique in King’s cannon for it’s science fiction vibes as King comes across as a perverse Ray Bradbury.

Graveyard Shift" was a good story with creepy moments, but certainly with too much build-up in the beginning and too much speed in the ending. As I continue my Stephen King binge, I seem to be leaning more towards his short story collections. As I've said before Stephen King is one of the best short story writers around.Magazines lost much of their importance for young authors to become popular, but at least they made a King writing in the shortest format ever possible, distilling the horror to the absolute minimum necessary and enabling something even the devil deemed impossible. Making him write in short, not wordy, form. La storia termina con il narratore che calcola la crescita esponenziale di cui la creatura era capace, aspettando di capire se il sopravvissuto sia Henry o la creatura.