I'm the same way about The Shining. I don't think of it as a favorite but I keep getting drawn back into it!
I haven't read Hell House, I don't think. Now I really have to...
There's also Stephen King's Rose Red, which was oodles of fun and did what movies and books should do with all haunted house stories: ultimately, the house itself is the star of the show. The Overlook Hotel is probably the ultimate haunted house star.
Yes! It's hard to explain...though I think SK himself explains it well in Danse Macabre. It's not about the house being haunted by a particular spirit, it's the idea of the "bad place." The insane house that's alive like a person--Hill House is the same way, definitely.
Well, I think they do say that houses in dreams stand for yourself or your mind, so that's probably why it works so well.
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Date: 2005-10-04 03:06 pm (UTC)I haven't read Hell House, I don't think. Now I really have to...
There's also Stephen King's Rose Red, which was oodles of fun and did what movies and books should do with all haunted house stories: ultimately, the house itself is the star of the show. The Overlook Hotel is probably the ultimate haunted house star.
Yes! It's hard to explain...though I think SK himself explains it well in Danse Macabre. It's not about the house being haunted by a particular spirit, it's the idea of the "bad place." The insane house that's alive like a person--Hill House is the same way, definitely.
Well, I think they do say that houses in dreams stand for yourself or your mind, so that's probably why it works so well.