Word: demonicism
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It may be that this time Mrs. Spark herself has succumbed to the powers of her prose. Despite her sheer skill and concision-or perhaps because of them-the book is too schematic. It also seems a rather self-consciously "modern" novel. Though the author's descriptive grasp of...
Safely out of the quad, she stops at a street corner to wait for the light. A car pulls up to the curb and a guy leans out and sneers, "Howdja like to do some modeling?" His face has the horribly lascivious look of Loerke, the demonic artist in Women...
Suicide? Even in death Aimee kept the public guessing. That was her style-and perhaps her privilege. It should hardly be a biographer's privilege, but Thomas claims it. He chooses to see her as a showman; but she was also a shaman, one of the charged and chosen...
This is Terry Southern's first novel in eleven years, and the news is that he has given up hard-core scatology. Blue Movie has but a single passing reference to excrement, and only one physical freak. Instead, the author is content to employ his demonic imagination on an...
How long till the next battle, when Earth goes against the demonic centipede men from the distant reaches of galactic space?