Danse Macabre
400 Pages
Part memoir, part masterclass, part haunted house tour. Danse Macabre is Stephen King’s deep dive into the horror genre: what scares us, why it scares us, and how those fears reflect the times we live in. Covering books, films, radio, comics, and cultural moments from the 1950s through the early 1980s, King dissects the guts of horror with the passion of a fan and the precision of a craftsman.
From Shirley Jackson to The Exorcist, from Dracula to The Twilight Zone, he explores what makes horror tick…and why it keeps coming back.
More personal than academic, Danse Macabre reads like sitting down with King at a dusty drive-in and listening to him riff on everything creepy, cheesy, brilliant, and bloody that shaped his imagination.