Par Stephen King

Ce recueil de nouvelles regorge d'inventions et de violence. Le fantastique et l'horreur surgissent au détour des réalités les plus familières. Ainsi...
Quand un tueur à gages rentre de voyage, mission accomplie, et qu'il découvre dans un colis arrivé en son absence des soldats de plomb, il a envie de sourire, non ? II aurait tort...
Quand des camions mènent un train d'enfer sur le parking de votre motel et vous assiègent, n'y a-t-il pas de quoi devenir fou ? Surtout quand on s'aperçoit qu'il s'agit de camions sans chauffeur.:.
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In the fall of 1978 (between The Stand and The Dead Zone), Stephen King taught a course at the University of Maine on "Themes in Supernatural Literature." As he writes in the foreword to this book, he was nervous at the prospect of "spending a lot of time in front of a lot of people talking about a subject in which I had previously only felt my way instinctively, like a blind man." The course apparently went well, and as with most teaching experiences, it was as instructive, if not more so, to the teacher as it was to the students. Thanks to a suggestion from his former editor at Doubleday, King decided to write Danse Macabre as a personal record of the thoughts about horror that he developed and refined as a result of that course. The outcome is an utterly charming book that reads as if King were sitting right there with you, shooting the breeze. He starts on October 4, 1957, when he was 10 years old, watching a Saturday matinee of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Just as the saucers were mounting their attack on "Our Nation's Capital," the movie was suddenly turned off. The manager of the theater walked out onto the stage and announced, "The Russians have put a space satellite into orbit around the earth. They call it ... Spootnik." That's how the whole book goes: one simple, yet surprisingly pertinent, anecdote or observation after another. King covers the gamut of horror as he'd experienced it at that point in 1978 (a period of