Novel: Horror, supernatural. Contains violence, disturbing imagery, obscenity, and adult situations. Richard Matheson is superb at taking a good idea, even an average idea, and refining it to an exquisitely razor point. In my opinion, the best example of this is his short story “Duel” which remains one of my favorite short stories. The plot of “Duel” is essentially this; a maniac in a truck begins to hunt a man on the highway and eventually tries to run him over. That could easily flop, but Matheson knows how to throw in an enough tension to keep us on the edge of our seats. And he knows how to not overstay his welcome, but still give us a good piece of literature to sink our retrospective teeth into. So the premise of Stir of echoes is not may not be that exciting (Especially in this day and age when the same concepts are shown only slightly differently on every TV show involving the supernatural), but Matheson goes all the way with it. An average man by...
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