7-28-07 Strangewood by Christopher Golden - Fiction

2 - This is marketed as horror but it's not really scary and not particularly good. An author's son suddenly goes into an unexplainable coma. It turns out the son has been kidnapped into Strangewood, the setting for his books. Here's where the story loses its punch: the author writes kids books. So the author OD's to put himself into a coma and enters Strangewood to canter around with his characters. So he's charging through Strangewood with characters named Mr. Tinklebum, Brownie the dancing bear, Fiddlestick the dragon, and the Peanut Butter General. The main baddie is Jackal Lantern. You see why it's just not scary.