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Chargement... The October Game [short story] (1948)par Ray Bradbury
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Stories like this really do portray exactly how close and cut of the same cloth Stephen King and Ray Bradbury both are. This is a short but horrifying story, easily read with them or under an hour. Nonetheless it does just the right amount of horror much like a Stephen King short. I can see the inspiration that hit Stephen King and kept him going to this very day it's clear as can be that this guy inspired everything that King became. And with each story I listen to of Ray Bradbury I just fall a little bit more in love with the world he created it's just such a great idea the things he tells the stories he weaves. I definitely recommend listening to this even if you know what's going to happen and even if you've listened to it once hearing in a second time just makes the build up even better. A very solid short horror story definitely for those people who adore Halloween. 4.5 out of 5 stars. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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From the opening moments on a crisp October day at Halloween, we are in the head of a husband as his wife prepares for the arrival of children and guests to a Halloween party. We quickly learn that he loathes his wife, Louise, so much so that simply killing her isn’t going to be enough; he wants her to suffer. With growing trepidation from the reader of this short story, it gradually becomes clear that eight-year-old Marion, blonde and blue-eyed, and quiet, might be in great danger.
A party game at Halloween, a pitch-black basement, and a final line that leaves the truth about the matter entirely to the imagination of the reader, make this a suspenseful and — perhaps — grisly masterpiece of short fiction. Both Bradbury and Cornell Woolrich hold the distinction of being two writers whom no one else ever wrote like. Here, Bradbury schools writers on how to tell a gruesome and genuinely creepy tale by using the imagination of the reader. Much darker than Bradbury usually went, but unforgettable.
Though I have this and actually read it, there is a good audio reading of this short story I discovered on you-tube that only takes about twenty minutes to listen to if you don’t own the printed version. Here it is — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owjA3O-liS0 ( )