![]() ![]() In comparison, The Girl With All the Gifts is a through and through zombie chiller, but acquires depth in its portrayal of a zombie girl’s coming of age. It has been compared to Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian Never Let Me Go, which, incidentally, was also a bit of a crossover as critics couldn’t agree upon whether to label it horror or sci-fi or something else. Carey, who you may have come across as a comic book writer (X-men). The latest example of a sensible horror novel, that combines good literature with shocks, just landed on my desk and I must say I relished every line of The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. It can be appreciated equally by horror aficionados as well as anybody who loves a good story. It is a gripping story about a girl vampire living in humdrum suburbia, who makes friends with a boy who is bullied at school-both are outcasts, and their friendship strengthens them. I first noticed this trend about 10 years ago, when in the early 2000s Swedish novelist John Ajvide Lindqvist published his debut Let the Right One In, which went on to be filmed twice-the Hollywood version was called Let Me In (2010). Lately a new generation of writers has taken up the challenge to write horror that matches the literary qualities of Frankenstein and Dracula. Twilight Zone scriptwriter Richard Matheson was another literary whiz kid, whose most popular vampire novel I Am Legend (1954) has been filmed multiple times-most recently in 2007. Lovecraft, who died impoverished in 1937 but inspired major later writers such as Joyce Carol Oates on the one hand, as well as the gory 1980s Re-Animator movie franchise with its echoes of Frankenstein. Much of the writing was sheer pulp and cheap thrills, save for the work of certain geniuses like H.P. Most of these monsters are known to us today through films, with Dracula alone providing inspiration for over 200 movies. There were also werewolves galore in gothic fiction and then the very cinematic King Kong (the first movie appeared in 1933) ran amok, followed by a tsunami of zombies. Its success unleashed a whole series of books and films about horrible outsiders, such as Dracula, an epistolary novel written in the 1890s by a London theatre manager, Bram Stoker. ![]()
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