This Time It's Personal by B. Harrison Smith

Author:B. Harrison Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

I gave up. Nothing mattered anymore. Something in me died with Toni.

Pet Sematary tapped into this grief. When Louis Creed lost Gage in that horrid trucking accident. I got it. I was with him as he ventured out to do the unthinkable, digging up his boy for the shot to have him back. I asked myself while I read…would I do the same for Toni if I knew there was a chance to have her back?

Let me make this clear, I did not give any thought to re-creating Louis’s actions in Pet Sematary. This was grief, not insanity, delusion or the influence of an evil graveyard. I identified with that father’s grief. King also made it very clear through the Greek Chorus that was next door neighbor Judd Crandall, that what comes back is evil and while it may fill the hole, what festers beneath that wound will kill you.

King’s lesson was very clear: sometimes dead is better.

The book helped me manage my grief. Horror served as a sounding board for my dark thoughts and brought me back up to the surface. A close friend gave me a verbal ass-kicking to head off impeachment. I returned to my grades and presidential duties full force.

It wasn’t overnight, but King’s book was a factor in managing the pain in my soul.

King’s ability to tap into the most basic of human emotions is coupled with his mastery of finding horror in the ordinary. He knows where real horror comes from. His horror always begins quietly…it seeps out of the woodwork. He doesn’t start with grandiose alien invasions or supernatural perfect storms.

Instead, he knows what scares you, because he knows it’s personal.

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