Golden is an old pro, author or co-author of many titles for adults and young adults, sometimes based on other franchises like Hellboy or Buffy or his own original work, with some of the joint enterprises co-written with the likes of Tim Lebbon or the late Rick Hautala, and one of my favourite novels is his book early book Strangewood, which just cries out to be turned into a film or TV series. It is interesting that there is a quote on the cover of Snowblind by Stephen King ('Throw away all those old “It was a dark and stormy night” novels…this one if the real deal'), because on the surface of things, this novel bears a similarity to King’s screenplay for the TV mini-series Storm of the Century because in Golden’s novel and King’s story we both have tales of communities shut off by extreme weather and what lies waiting for the local people in these circumstances, especially as there is something riding both storms, hidden within it, but while King’s work focused on an island community – Little Tall island (the same place where he set Dolores Claiborne) and a mysterious, almost immoral stranger who has descended on the island and brings out the worst in the local population and exacts a terrible cost on one family in particular Golden’s novel is almost a two-parter, with the snow storms striking the community of Coventry, Massachusetts twice, twelve years earlier when eighteen people died in mysterious circumstances when they were touched by the storm, and now for those who survived, their worst fears are being realised, another terrible snow storm is on its way, and what will it contain this time? Review of Snowblind by Christopher Golden Fiction Reviews

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