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First published in 1979 when I was 15, I remember reading this book and thinking that I had never read anything like it. Definitely my first grownup horror novel this is a classic that I wanted to reread. I liked the building of the story, how we see Baal through his childhood and into adulthood. There is a lot of dread and violence in the story. I found the whole thing very interesting. I liked that the ending was in the isolation of the arctic.