Swedish horror novelist John Avide Lindqvist is best known in America for his debut novel, Let The Right One In, which inspired the 2008 film adaptation and the excellent American remake Let Me In. Lindqvist has a special, sympathetic feeling for childhood loneliness and the kind of adolescent rage that’s fed by bullying, ostracism, and frustrated desires, a quality that leant an ambiguous emotional texture to his vampire love story and his new novel, Little Star, billed as his first non-supernatural effort. It’s still ripe horror material.
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