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The M.D. [011-4.9]

By: THOMAS M. DISCH

Synopsis:

STEPHEN KING PRAISES

THE M.D.

BY THOMAS M. DISCH ...

The M.D. is simply one of the best novels of horror-fantasy I've ever
read. Thomas Disch has been writing wonderful tales of imagination for
years now-stories that sometimes amuse, sometimes sting, sometimes
horrify, and sometimes manage to do all three at the same time-but The
M.D. is surely his magnum opus.

Although Disch uses the Frankenstein myth (and surely it has attained
mythological status by this point) as a kind of echo chamber to make
his story resonate, it is Dracula the novel most closely resembles on
an emotional level. Like Dracula, The M.D. is the story of a great
monster, a creature so awful that we can't help rooting for him. It
also has the sweep of Dracula, and if Disch's novel is not as totally
involving as Stoker's vampire tale, it may be because Disch has
leavened the melodrama with a generous helping of black comedy. Still,
don't be fooled: The M.D. attained maintains a level of morbid, jittery
intensity that is quite remarkable.

Oh, and one other thing: unlike most of the horror novels being
churned out these days by the King wannabes, the Koontz wannabes, the
Straub wannabes, and the Barker wannabes, The M.D. is a novel with a
point. Disch understands that to really succeed as horror, a story
must first succeed on the level of fundamental interest where the best
fairy tales live. Put another way, a good horror novel must be about
morality. The M.D. succeeds brilliantly as a morality tale-which means
that it entertains us instead of preaching to us-and it says some
marvellously insightful things along the way about business, religion,
the family in suburbia , and the America we inherited in the wake of
Vietnam.

A thousand bravos to Thomas Disch, who has written a brilliantly
entertaining novel. I hope it's a big fat #1 best-seller.

P.S. The "kite scene" is going to be as infamous as the double
amputation in Harry Bellaman's King's Row, I think.

S. K.
ALSO BY THOMAS M. DISCH