Word: horror
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...Tolkien's bestiary on the march in fantastical realms. In Return, the giant trolls, four-tusked elephants and flying, screeching serpents of Mordor will amaze adults and may startle small children. The spider monster Shelob, creeping up on Frodo and mummifying him in a silken straitjacket, offers a delicious horror-movie frisson...
...Highbrow Horror In his viewpoint on Stephen King receiving the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters [Nov. 24], Lev Grossman described King as an "unrepentant horror monger." But Grossman admits that the great literary novels of the past were often as popular as the works of King. It's clear that King is in a class of his own; he is élite. And the American reader should be credited with appreciating this. A great writer raises standards and makes all writers work harder. King's prose and storytelling changed the landscape of the novel...
Vendler marveled at how Yeats could depict violence and horror without taking sides...
...Washington to solve problems and not pass them on," he said. As the largest expansion of the program since its inception in 1965, the $400 billion plan was a big solution indeed. But for a band of deficit hawks and rainy-day worriers in Washington, it was a horror--the latest evidence that in the past five years they have become voices in the wilderness. How to keep the federal budget in check--an issue that was once central to both Democratic and Republican politics--has been shunted aside, leaving fiscal conservatives at think tanks across the country fretting over...
...went through that time and watched his friends die"--Kirk kept doubting that he was ready to play in such a high-stakes arena. "You're sitting there knowing it's a dream come true," he says, "but you can't enjoy it because you're so racked with horror over the idea of playing this classic role and maybe not coming through...