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Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin
That's nearly 8 years after I gave up. "Needful Things" was OK, but it was still his same damn story with a little bit of bizarre sex and murder all mixed together without much of a plot. Wow, a rewrite of "The Monkey's Paw." I dunno. I wouldn't pay for another book of his. If bored, I might read one, but I'm certainly no longer an avid reader.
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I really don't see the similarities other than they're both horror stories. I thought NT was a great book, with a mephistopholean shopowner gradually drawing out the townspeople's little problems with each other and then blowing those up into murder and mayhem.
I'm not saying that SK is the greatest writer that ever lived, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion in this kind of thing anyway, but imho he's the best HORROR writer that ever lived. Matheson probably had greater overall ideas, but he can't match SK in execution.