Monday, February 3, 2014

Henry Ray Has Escaped/ Reason I chose the book

The reason I chose to read this book is it is a horror book, not only a horror book but a slasher book, that sells itself as a throw back to the 80's slasher film. The reason that excites me is that I am a big slasher fan and I do genuinely like these movies and this is a love letter to all the Friday The 13th, or Halloween. Also the book itself was advertised on Fear Net as a slasher book so I thought I would get it off Amazon because the book sounds interesting. Another thing is the title just sounds awesome to me because they add the tag line that now he's back and that just screams slasher to me as a slasher fan. Also the book is around 267 pages so it would be a quicker read then the last book I read because the text was small so it was hard to read and that's why it took so long, so I want to wind down with some simple easy to understand horror book. Another thing I can think of is that the book is independently published and I like supporting independent arts, because without being small these writers and other artist can't get big. The other thing is that the story of a guy is executed then comes back to his child hood woods to go and kill anyone that trespasses on his woods so it sounds simplistic but that can still be a fun read for me as a slasher fan. My final and probably main reason was that the book is the shortest horror book I have read in a long time compared to a Steven King book that I read and this on the other hand is as simplistic as the slasher films it is paying tribute but not directly ripping the whole genre off and making fun of the genre but instead paying homage to horror movies.

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