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The Modern Weird Tale - A Critique of Horror Fiction (Paperback)
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The Modern Weird Tale - A Critique of Horror Fiction (Paperback)
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This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror
and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is
to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the
genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty years from those
who have obtained merely transient popular renown. Accordingly, the
author regards the complex, subtle work of Shirley Jackson, Ramsey
Campbell, Robert Aickman, T.E.D. Klein, and Thomas Ligotti as
considerably superior to the best-sellers of Stephen King, Clive
Barker, Peter Straub, and Anne Rice. Other writers such as William
Peter Blatty, Thomas Tryon, Robert Bloch, and Thomas Harris are
also discussed. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a
pioneering attempt to chart the development of weird fiction over
the past half-century.
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