The Evolution of the Weird Tale
by S. T. Joshi
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S. T. Joshi is one of the premier critics of supernatural fiction. His pioneering research on H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, and other writers has set a standard of scholarship that few have equaled. In The Evolution of the Weird Tale--an informal follow-up to his earlier studies, The Weird Tale (1990) and The Modern Weird Tale (2001)--Joshi assesses a wide array of American and British supernatural writers of the past century or more, meticulously scrutinizing their weird show more work and gauging their place in the canon of horror fiction. Such American writers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries as W. C. Morrow, F. Marion Crawford, Robert W. Chambers, and Edward Lucas White come under scrutiny, as well as their British counterparts E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling, and L. P. Hartley. Joshi includes substantial essays on Lovecraft and his disciples Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, and Frank Belknap Long. In a provocative section on contemporary writers, Joshi dissects the vampire novels of Les Daniels, the short stories of "Twilight Zone" creator Rod Serling, David J. Schow and the school of splatterpunk, and the novels and tales of Poppy Z. Brite. All in all, Joshi has provided some of the most in-depth analyses of both classic and modern weird writers ever written. show lessTags
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S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer, a scholar, and an editor. He is the author of The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism and God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong, and the editor of Atheism: A Reader, The Agnostic Reader, H. L Mencken on Religion; Documents of American Prejudice; In Her Place: A Documentary History of show more Prejudice against Women; and What Is Man? And Other Irreverent Essays. He is also the editor of the American Rationalist. show less
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- W. C. Morrow; Robert W. Chambers; F. Marion Crawford; Edward Lucas White; Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; Rudyard Kipling (show all 18); E. F. Benson; L. P. Hartley; H. P. Lovecraft; Frank Belknap Long; Robert Bloch; Fritz Leiber; Rod Serling; L. P. Davies; Les Daniels; Dennis Etchison; David J. Schow; Poppy Z. Brite
- First words
- Robert Bloch long ago remarked that "Lovecraft was my university."
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It is conceivable that she may amount to something in the coming years, but she has a long way to go.
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, General Nonfiction, History
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- 028 — Computer science, information & general works Library & information sciences Reading and use of other information media
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- PN6120.95 .H727 .J67 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Fiction
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