![]() And the reader who appears to relish such sensations-why, he’s an emotional masochist. To them it is a kind of pornography, inducing horripilation instead of erection. ![]() Hartwell includes a quotation of David Aylward: This means that horror is free of the supernatural (5). What this means is that you can experience true horror in, potentially, any work of fiction, be it a western, a contemporary gothic, science fiction, mystery. It is Lovecraft’s essay that provides the keystone upon which any architecture of horror must be built: atmosphere. clustered around the principle of a real or fake intrusion of the supernatural into the natural world, an intrusion which arouses fear (4-5). Dick, and other names worth the dropping, to wit: Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flanner O’Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, D. Sheridan LeFanu, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. Hartwell, editor of The Dark Descent (Tor, NY, 1987), which he makes in his introduction to the anthology of creepy short stories by such authors as Stephen King, John Collier, M. ![]() Today’s post carries no byline because it’s really a summary of observations by David G. ![]()
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