Fully Dressed and In His Right Mind
A Horror book. "Like John Franklin Bardin [The Deadly Percheron:], Fressier takes a screwball situation and adroitly twists it into...
"Like John Franklin Bardin [The Deadly Percheron], Fressier takes a screwball situation and adroitly twists it into something evil."-Karl Edward Wagner, 13 Best Supernatural Horror Novels.Fressier passed away many years ago after a long and distinguished career writing for movies and TV. He didn't produce a lot of novels, which is what makes Fully Dressed memorable.I like to imagine KEW finding this one in some dusty bookstore or second hand shop, on the verge of tossing it back, then thinking: "Wait a minute, this looks good." As I work my way through his "essentials" list, the variety of it never ceases to amaze me. There are days I wonder how big the list might've been if he'd decided to publish everything which had impressed him.Here's the opening line from the novel:"I was standing in front of the Herald and somebody fired a shot and I saw a fat man turn slowly on one heel and fall to the sidewalk."The victim is the publisher of the local paper. The killer is a nondescript little old man. The narrator of the story is John Price, an everyman who just happens to find himself caught up in events...
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"Like John Franklin Bardin [The Deadly Percheron:], Fressier takes a screwball situation and adroitly twists it into something evil."-Karl Edward Wagner, 13 Best Supernatural Horror Novels.Fressier passed away many years ago after a long and distinguished career writing for movies and TV. He didn't produce a lot of novels, which is... (Updated 2/24/17)If it weren't for Karl Edward Wagner's 3 lists of his all-time "favorite" horror novels -- back in the early 80s for Twilight Zone Magazine -- this novel and several others would probably be totally forgotten, instead of just mostly forgotten. I put "favorite" in quotes because I half-suspect that Wagner was picking... Just notes, not a proper review:One of my favorites from Karl Edward Wagner's legendary "39" list, which is, of course, what put me on to it in the first place. The novel has a wonderful fable-like quality which I really enjoy when it is well-done, yet it didn't strike me as excessively whimsical which is which is one of the pitfalls...
