This spectacular darkness : critical essays / by Joel Lane ; edited by Mark Valentine and John Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, Joel, 1963-2013, author.

Contributor:

Valentine, Mark, editor.

Howard, John, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror tales--History and criticism.

Horror tales.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

[T.-H.].

Physical Description:

x, 338 pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leyburn, North Yorkshire : Tartarus Press, 2016.

Contents:

This spectacular darkness

The dark houses of Cornell Woolrich

The October Revolution: Ray Bradbury's existetial paradigm for the horror genre

The territory of the others: the dark fiction of Theodore Sturgeon

No secret place: the haunted cities of Fritz Leiber

Ruins of time: the mortal terrors of Harlan Ellison

The ruins of reality: Thomas Ligotti and the uses of disenchantment

World gone wrong: H.P. Lovecraft's mythology of loss

Forever always ends: Robert Aickman's vision of afterlife

Strange eons and the Cthulhu muthos

Negatives in print: the early novels of Ramsey Campbell

Beyond the light: the recent novels of Ramsey Campbell

Writers in the James tradition: Ramsey Campbell

The double edge: Robert Aickman's supernatural stories

The master of masks

A dream by the old canal

Hell is other people: Robert Bloch and the pathologies of the family

Mapping the territory: Joel Lane's essays / John Howard

The paper ghosts: reflections on five early stories / Mark Valentine

'Where the gods are rotting': the poetry of Joel Lane / Mat Joiner

Socialism or barbarism: Joel Lane's blue trilogy and the poetry of the lost / Nina Allan.

Notes:

This edition limited to 300 copies.

"This volume is completed by appreciations of Joel's essays, poetry, short stories and novels"--Jacket.

Please see 'Publication History', page 337, for the first publication of individual essays--End paper.

ISBN:

1905784902

9781905784905

OCLC:

1000705832