Good Southern gothic is famously hard to arrive at 'correctly'. It's a moody, atmospheric, crazy family saga combined with a sexually-realistic romantic storyline as well. Much of it can be read-and marveled at-for just this aspect alone. First, 'All Heads' is a rich example of 'Southern Gothic' writing -and a very fine one at that. The strengths of his conception here, are many. He was ahead of his time he was a pioneer and a forerunner. Ira Levin (of all people) was leading the field.īut then John Farris comes along and-via this one book-showed that a horror novel could stand on its own be fully-fledged could exhibit robustness, could obey all the principles of modern mainstream dramatic fiction. Ambitious mass-market authors at that time, were not really throwing all their energies into this genre because it was considered a 'sleepy backwater'.
It was conceived at the dawn of the horror-fiction revolution stirred awake by Stephen King during that long 'lull' before the genre exploded and multi-millions began to be tossed around. Its notoriety and reputation-its esteem and admiration-are fully well-earned. There is no other horror novel quite like this one.
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