A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
The notion that a televised competition could produce a "great" writer (always paying careful attention to how the producers define that notoriously slippery word) is questionable at best.
Barker’s psychologically tense story examines the price we pay for confronting our darkest fears.
The novels will be published individually in October and November, followed by a box set in December.
Groups of writers and publishers from Europe and elsewhere gather together in support of Ukraine following the Russian invasion of February 24.
In its examination of the roots of American horror cinema, this single-volume survey is valuable, though it lacks follow-through in its second half.
The book uses Grand Guignol techniques to literalize the process of tearing oneself open in the act of artistic creation.
“It’s difficult to assign a specific cultural meaning to the bad clown, because it is such a malleable archetype,” Radford writes.
The genre “specifically devoted to the arousal of bodily sensation” traffics in transgression and finds pleasure in the disreputable.
A powerful monument to what the short form is capable of from “the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century.”
Not a retread or homage, Bloch’s vampire story displays a momentum and technique typical of the author’s best work.