Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: The most lucid book about horror past and present

When I was in high school I did a presentation on horror movies and used this book as the sole point of reference. Besides being an example of what a lazy 17 year old I was, it also shows the quality of information.Stephen King not only is a great horror writer but he's also a fan. His memory, insights and knowledge are second only to Joe Bob Briggs. Even silly fifties movie are given a new life under Stephen King's nostalgia tripping. The back of the book has a list of greatest horror movies in King's opinion. An invaluable list.The only drawback is the fact that you start noticing the injokes in other books. Example is the scene in It where the main character has to recite "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts". Read this book and you know that he's tributing Donovan's Brain.