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Stranded on the spookiest night of the year, what better way to trick those Hallowed Eve blues than by treating yourself to a good gothic read? We ain't talking Stephen King pulp or Amityville schlock, but serious, tried-and-true, capital "l" Literature. If you intend to read your way through the most macabre and bone-chilling of Holiday vigils, set in store a shelfload of works guaranteed to keep you white-knuckled, wired, and wide-eyed...
...been, for ten years now, a cool hand at bringing up all manner of crawly things from just below the surface. Byrne and the Heads made music that examined some of the oddest, spookiest manifestations of modern emotional life, sang songs that turned grim tidings into deadpan jokes and disaffection into disarming social parables. Byrne's lyrics played four-wall handball with anomie and, floating all around the band's cunning and enterprising rhythms, moved the Heads past punk and over the crest of rock's new wave into a forefront they had sharpened up for themselves...
...that last, simple level, the movie gives not just good weight but astounding value. The space outpost is not merely a more capacious haunted house than the first film's spaceship; it is the spookiest such structure in the history of movies, big enough to contain not only the large pool of potential victims but squads of monsters who keep coming at them from all directions...
...years back, just before his career heated up and Warren Zevon started turning out some of the spookiest, saddest and most startling songs in pop music, he was jamming at a friend's house and wondering why no one would let him play lead guitar...
...HARVARD last spring, Mailer said that the book was the hardest he had written. He was confronted with "the spookiest adventure in history, a landing on the moon," and the event had nothing more to show for itself than machines and technicians whose personalities were wedded to the "absolute computer of the corporation." Faced with such a banality of facts and resolved to restore "magic psyche and the spirits of the underworld" to the venture, Mailer, calling himself Aquarius and summoning the aeronautical engineering of his undergraduate days, takes recourse to his senses to give us a dazzling report...