21st-Century Horror: Weird Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium

The literature of terror and the supernatural has been experiencing a renaissance over the past several decades, and with the advent of the new millennium a diverse cadre of writers have expanded the bounds of weird fiction and enriched it with their penetrating vision. This book is the first to pre [...]
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The literature of terror and the supernatural has been experiencing a renaissance over the past several decades, and with the advent of the new millennium a diverse cadre of writers have expanded the bounds of weird fiction and enriched it with their penetrating vision. This book is the first to present a broad analysis of horror fiction as written by writers in their forties and fifties. S. T. Joshi, one of the leading authorities on weird fiction, brings divides his book into three categories, based on his judgment of the varying merits of the authors in question. Among the