If i had to pick just one of the stories in SC as my favorite this would be it. That ending was straight up crazy in a good way though. So what does everyone else feel about this story?
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Had to pull the pb off the shelf to refresh my memory. Looking at it again, I'd guess you might like to read John Sandford's Phantom Prey and I need to read this one again. At a glance, they both have the same vibe going for them.
So did you ever read it again Walter?
...didn't care for it that much...I like Edgar Allen Poe, which I feel this was an homage to, but it just isn't one of my favorites...
...OK, here's my somewhat twisted reasoning...my synapses make some odd connections from time to time...that story has elements of Lovecraft's Rats in the Walls, echoes a bit of King's Jerusalem's Lot-but Nona gave me a Poe vibe because the titular character reminds me of many of Poe's femme fatales, or ladies who brought their swains to the brink of madness...Why did you think Poe? I saw it as a redo of the typical urban-legend hitch-hiker. I know Poe had a thing about being buried alive, a talent for writing from the perspective of madness, and a strange love life, but I've read everything he's written and I didn't see the connection.
Kelly
...OK, here's my somewhat twisted reasoning...my synapses make some odd connections from time to time...that story has elements of Lovecraft's Rats in the Walls, echoes a bit of King's Jerusalem's Lot-but Nona gave me a Poe vibe because the titular character reminds me of many of Poe's femme fatales, or ladies who brought their swains to the brink of madness...