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Elsewhere (1999)

by William Peter Blatty(Favorite Author)

3.06 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1587670836 (ISBN13: 9781587670831)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Cemetery Dance Publications

review 1: While an effective haunted house story that also deals with spirituality, I personally found the characters to be very obnoxious, particularly Terence Dare. In conversations between characters, I sometimes found it hard to keep track of who was saying what. However, despite these minor annoyances, I found the story to be overall engaging and a reminder that there needn't be obscene amounts of gore and a psycho with a chainsaw for a story to be scary.
review 2: Sometimes good writers produce crappy novels. Such is the case with William Peter Blatty’s Elsewhere. Blatty is a master of supernatural and horror fiction. Hell, Stephen King might have remained a high school English teacher if Blatty hadn’t kicked the door to the horror genre open with The Exorcist ... morein 1971. Blatty’s Legion is an equally important work in the field. But Elsewhere isn’t. This is the same “skeptics in a haunted house” set-up we’ve seen many times before, from The Haunting to House On Haunted Hill. And the “twist” ending Blatty offers is stale and simply doesn’t play in a post “Sixth Sense” society. Blatty gets two stars for the sheer force of his characters. His leads have awful names—a woman named Freeboard, and a gay man named Dare—but they’ve got the spark of life. At one point Dare finds himself an unexpected hero to Freeboard. “What is the meaning of this ludicrous courage? he marveled. It never would've occurred to him that the answer was love.” That’s a good line, written by a good writer. Unfortunately the rest of Elsewhere doesn’t measure up. less

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