Author Bev VincentPosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Bev Vincent reviews Wreckage, Peter Straub’s final, unfinished novel Reviewed by Bev Vincent
The appearance of a new Peter Straub novel has always been a cause for celebration. During his 50-year career, he published only seventeen others, including two co-written with Stephen King, and there were several lengthy gaps between books. Even though Wreckage is incomplete, it represents a major addition to his oeuvre.Continue Reading
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories ReviewsLeave a comment on Review: ‘The Process (is a Process All its Own)’ by Peter Straub 
The Process (is a Process All its Own) by Peter Straub
Subterranean Press (July 2017)
96 pages; $40.00 hardcover
Reviewed by Blu Gilliand
The majority of slasher fiction—whether it’s short stories, books, or movies—tends to focus on the hunt. Here’s a group of thinly-sketched victims, cannon fodder to be creatively knocked off one-by-one; and here’s a killer, often silent, usually masked, his or her motivations as mysterious as their identity. What comes after is, more often than not, a by-the-numbers recreation of the stalk-n-slash formula that’s been a staple of horror since the 1970s.*Continue Reading
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