Update at 11:19 PM ET —
"We all float down here." — Pennywise the Clown
A comparison of Peter Straub's novel Floating Dragon (1982)
with Stephen King's novel It (1986) —
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"Many people have cited some distinct similarities between Stephen King’s It and Floating Dragon . An ancient evil that awakes every thirty years, several main male characters and a single female character who come together to confront that evil, a number of asides around the small town as bystanders are picked off, even a number of scenes and themes in common."
— https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/ From the same webpage — "As the book rockets towards its ending, Straub really does pull out all the stops. A late chapter is entitled 'through the looking glass' and that really is how the book begins to feel, more like a surreal and disturbing fantasy world than a book set in late twentieth century America. Usually in horror novels the point when reality seriously starts to crumble, whether its visions of grandmothers turning into fish or angel shaped biscuits turning evil, there is always the sense that this must be just a dream and the main characters will wake up. Well not here, the weirder things seem, the deadlier they are, indeed one comment late on in the book by Graham that just because something isn’t real doesn’t mean it can’t kill you seemed almost like Straub’s mission statement." |