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...reach such underage readers by subterfuge or stealth. Adolescents now constitute a booming niche market for the peddling of published gore and violence. "Teens' interests go in cycles," says Patricia MacDonald, editorial director of Archway Paperbacks, an imprint of Pocket Books and a major player in the teen-horror field. "In the '70s it was problem novels, the disease of the week. Then it was romance novels, soap operas like Sweet Valley High and Sweet Dreams. In the '90s it's the thrillers." Hardly a blip on publishers' sales charts a few years ago, such thrillers claimed three...
Such calculated shock tactics seem qualitatively different from the methods of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island or even the horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Classical children's literature is full of overt and implicit terrors because some gifted authors could remember and portray a child's view, those feelings of awe, uncertainty and fear inspired by the world outside. Fright requires no invention; conquering it through language does...
...Nintendo or watching Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, is a good thing. Viviane Lampach, a librarian at a Bronx high school in New York City, notes that her young patrons check out new paperback novels in this genre and never return them: "You hope to wean them from horror to something deeper and more meaningful." Roderick McGillis, a professor of English at the University of Calgary and author of a book on children's literature, takes a darker view: "What disturbs me is that we're developing in our culture, in our cities, a kind of siege mentality...
...There's only one problem with the Davies baby," ran the tag line for a particularly repulsive horror movie some years ago: "It's alive!" Well, there's only one problem with the 4.3 cents-per-gal. gas tax the Senate has proposed: it's too little. The House and Senate conferees, wrestling to reconcile their respective budget packages, should make one tiny little amendment. Where it says 4.3 cents, they should add two words: a year. And maybe a third word: forever. For decades, we'd still be paying vastly less for gas than our competitors (in Europe...
...horror of survival in a city without hope...