And I used to read alot of horror though not so much anymore. This is without a doubt one of the best horror books ever written. The Bad seed is one of those horror classics where you say to your self, 'they just don't make em like that anymore'. I mean.everyone has their thing that scares them and that's mine. “What was to be their duty in future both to their child, and to the society in which they lived?”įor some reason, horror novels featuring creepy, evil little children really scare the heck out of me. But I was reading the audiobook, so that makes it harder to refer back. Made it hard to follow until I got far enough into the story to remember their names. One thing I didn't like was the way the author sometimes referred to characters by their first name, and other times by their last.

She finally comes up with a solution, but like her, it's pretty dumb. But what can she do? She doesn't want to hurt her flesh and blood, nor does she want to bring shame to her husband and his snobbish family. Her mother seems a bit dumb, but finally figures out what is going on. Fortunately, she seems so nice and polite, not to mention cute, that many people don't say no. If she wants something, you'd better not say no. The main character is a sweet, young girl on the outside, and a cold-blooded psychopath on the inside. Many of them seemed to be caricatures of themselves - if that's the correct word for exaggerated peculiarities. Some of it was humorous - the strange characters especially. It was OK, but sounded better to me than it turned out to be. Vintage Movie Classics spotlights classic films that have stood the test of time, now rediscovered through the publication of the novels on which they were based.I was disappointed in this book.

The Bad Seed is an indelible portrait of an evil that wears an innocent face, one which still resonates in popular culture today. Originally published in 1954, William March's final novel was an instant bestseller and National Book Award finalist before it was adapted for the stage and made into a 1956 film. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around?

With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything-even murder.

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