THE HOUSE OF FEAR
The late Leonora Carrington was a world-renowned painter and designer, and also one of the most interesting authors to emerge from the surrealist movement.
The late Leonora Carrington was a world-renowned painter and designer, and also one of the most interesting authors to emerge from the surrealist movement.
Sometimes, to get to the really good stuff the horror fiction buff must look outside the horror shelves for mislabeled genre fiction. One example would be this “surreal fairy tale,” an impressive 100 page exercise in contained apprehension.
Now that I’ve finally managed to excavate a copy I can understand, at least partially, why HELL HOUND by Ken Greenhall has been so widely ignored.
This kid book trifle isn’t Ray Bradbury’s best work, but is nonetheless an extremely readable and erudite display of imagination and phantasmagoric imagery.
I was doubly startled by THE GRIN OF THE DARK, easily Campbell’s finest book in years.
The elusive final novel by Arthur Machen, one of horror fiction’s most distinct and influential talents.
THE GREAT VICTORIAN COLLECTION compels one’s interest throughout, despite an admittedly meandering narrative.
It’s packaged as science fiction but is actually a hallucinatory horror fest with futuristic trappings. Some readers feel it’s a postmodern masterpiece, others a self-indulgent mess; I’ll have to side with the latter view, although there are mitigating elements.
I’ll have to say that based on the nine bizarre tales collected in GLASS COFFIN GIRLS, Paul Jessup definitely has the touch.
Here we have one of the great unknown masterworks of horror fiction.