Blind Date (Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror)

Rating:
Summary: As Teen Horror Novels go, one of the best!!LL
Review:

As a serious thinker and a reader of all forms of literature, I was delighted to see this brilliant work in a genre which has been insulted and degraded by many (Teen Horror). Mr. Richards has not only brought new dignity to this book form, but has taken a worn-out character (Freddy Krueger) and taken him to whole new levels and dimensions.

This book may seem at first glance to focus on Alicia, the cheerleader who is driven blind by a car accident, but working on a more deep, subtle level, The story revolves around Evan, the tortured "nerd". And what Mr.Richards is trying to show here is that the villian is not Freddy, but is the group of "popular kids" who persist in torturing Evan. In this, he proves that the villian is not always the hideous ghoul, but is sometimes the (at least physically) real human.

I have never known a writer in this genre to work on so many levels in a novel. Other authors, whom I certainly respect simply for having the patie