6/30/2023 0 Comments Joe hill the fireman reviewIt’s like something you might find in a George RR Martin novel (the marks are reminiscent of greyscale in A Song of Ice and Fire) crossed with spontaneous human combustion. At first the sickness causes the victims’ skin to be covered with an ashen, patterned mark, not unlike a tattoo eventually, they explode. It’s the story of nurse Harper Grayson, who watches as the world becomes overrun by a disease known as dragonscale. His new novel, The Fireman, seems at first to be playing in the same sandbox. Over the past few years, he has carved out a furrow of his own, packed with haunted rock stars ( A Heart-shaped Box), demonic possession ( Horns) and strange soul-vampires who drive evil cars ( N0S-4R2). The horror writers who are flourishing have moved away from the more generic creepy-slasher narratives a lot of the old guard fell prey to. The genre simply isn’t the powerhouse it once was, having been supplanted in public consciousness by the modern thriller: just as taut, just as nasty, but with a slightly more commercial, less overtly supernatural edge.
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