I want to see a horror ballet.

That's more or less the exact concept I was trying to get across. The fact that there is never one single story, and it all depends on whose side you tell it from.

In fact, it could quite easily develop further, using more characters. What debate it would encourage if we were shown a series from the point of view of all the different characters - it would completely blur the usually well-defined 'Good guy / bad guy scenario. Conceivably you could have different groups of viewers who always watch their favourite character's point of view - it would be brilliant, and the potential for character development is enormous. Sadly it's probably a logistical nightmare, if not impossibility, however.

Even if it is doable, i seriously doubt a major production company would ever pony up the dough for something like that. it would have to be indie.


Piers Anthony did something similar to this in the Incarnations of Immortality series, where portions of all of the books overlapped, and you got to see things from different perspectives. in most of the books, the Devil is evil, but in the devil's book, he is just doing a job that is needed by the cosmos. Pretty interesting.

I'll have to keep an eye out for those books. I must admit, I don't read a lot of horror - it tends to be sci-fi or non-fiction, but I'd be interested to check out what that particular style of writing looks like. Thanks for the info.

No problem. Piers Anthony is more fantasy than anything, but he does some sci fi too. He is huge on clever word games. In "On a Pale Horse", the first book in the series (about Death), there is a part where death fights a preying mantis. He has a book where the characters need to go to hell, and the only way to get there is a handbasket...

in the same world, there are centipedes: pennypedes, dimeapedes, nicklepedes.. you get the idea.