Kendare Blake lives and writes in Washington state, with cats and a husband who critique the work. Her first literary novel, Sleepwalk Society, recently won a 2011 Indie Excellence Award for crossover fiction. Her second novel, Anna Dressed in Blood, is YA horror, and will be released August 30, 2011, with a sequel to follow in 2012.
When Courtney approached me to write a guest post about my favorite horror novel, at first I thought, well, how am I going to determine that? There are so many. And they are all excellent for different reasons. But if I really thought about it, there’s only one horror novel that has simultaneously scared the bejeezus out of me, made me smile uncontrollably, and left me so empty that I was sure I’d been born with no soul. And that novel is Stephen King’s IT.
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