First, before I get to Whispers and The Year’s Best Horror Stories, I’ll say a few words about how these books impacted me as a writer, at a very specific time in my development. Grant, and Borderlands, edited by Thomas F. …and for the next two columns, look at the classic speculative and horror fiction anthologies Whispers, edited by Stuart David Schiff, and Karl Edward Wagner’s run as editor of The Year’s Best Horror Stories and then Shadows, edited by Charles L. (but not really, because I “discovered” these collections shortly after I started reading Mary and Ron’s work, so that’s where they belong in the chronology of my development) "Wagner is a contemporary master.My previous two columns focused on contemporary authors who have impacted me both as a writer and reader Mary SanGiovanni and Ronald Malfi, respectively.
"He knows exactly what he's doing he's scary, entertaining, and knowledgeable."- Peter Straub his tales of ancient evils working on the present are brilliantly modern." - Washington Post This new edition includes all the stories from the original 1983 edition, plus an additional rare tale and the author's afterword from the Scream/Press limited edition, and features a new introduction by Ramsey Campbell.
His seminal volume In a Lonely Place collects eight of his best tales, including "In the Pines," a classic ghost story evocatively set in the Tennessee woods, "Beyond Any Measure," an original take on the vampire story, "River of Night's Dreaming," a surreal and nightmarish masterpiece inspired by The King in Yellow, and the author's most famous tale, "Sticks," a disturbing story thought by many to have been the basis for The Blair Witch Project. Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) has earned a reputation as one of the finest horror writers of the modern era, but his work has been out of print and nearly unobtainable for many years.
One of the most important horror collections of modern times, back in print at last!
0 kommentar(er)
