Check out this new review from the Associated Press
They were kind enough to include a quote from my essay on Robin Cook’s COMA:
Why do the fans of the genre crave to vicariously experience fear, danger and even violence? Do they want to achieve a catharsis of their emotions?
CJ Lyons, a physician-novelist, offers a good explanation. In her essay about Robin Cook’s “Coma,” published in 1977 when America was coming out of a deep recession, she writes: “It was an era when real life was so scary that we looked for our entertainment to be even more frightening — as if the adrenaline rush of being terrified by novels and the big screen made our daily worries seem small in comparison.”
For more information go to the Thrillers: 100 Must Reads site.
