![]() And this makes the remarkable creation of so many characters and a back story for The Ceremonies all the more amazing, a fantastical leap. The novella is focused solely on the college student and the farming couple, and the animals they look after. I would say that 90% of the novella has been changed, and in such wondrous fashion. I wanted to compare the two of them since I just finished reading The Ceremonies for a second time in thirty year's time. The novella turned into the long novel titled The Ceremonies. Over a five-year period, he succeeded in lengthening and strengthening the creepy story about a farm in New Jersey that still did things the old way, what is considered the best and only way, maybe a righteous way, and the infidel college student who rents an outbuilding over one hot summer and faces pure evil. A bit after the publication of The Events At Poroth Farm, Klein decided to expand the novella. Straub's anthology is a terrific collection of dark tales, hitting each century, from the earliest to the present. Klein wrote The Events At Poroth Farm in the early seventies, and it has travelled well since then, becoming part of American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's to Now (Library of America), a two-volume set of the best dark tales, edited by Peter Straub. ![]()
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