Easily Distracted
Notes on the genre literature of 1760-2020
Friday, March 10, 2023
Gene Wolfe's horror stories
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Subterranean Press announced yesterday preorders for their new Gene Wolfe collection: The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories . The posted co...
Monday, March 6, 2023
Short horror fiction: An initial personal list
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I posted the below list on the Facebook Group Boiled Bones , which focuses on short horror fiction. It is written in imitation of a recent F...
Friday, March 3, 2023
Whistling past the graveyard: On the Beach (1957) by Nevil Shute
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Dwight hesitated for a moment, choosing his words. "It seems that I'm the senior executive officer of the U.S. Navy now,...
Monday, February 6, 2023
Jack Sullivan on Charles Ives
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From The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986): IVES, CHARLES (1871—1954). American composer, one of the most original...
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Jacques Barzun's introduction to The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986), edited by Jack Sullivan
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[....] the practiced reader of tales in our genre comes to feel not merely the shiver of fear, but the shiver of aesthetic seizure. In a sup...
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