The weird tale : Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft
In this penetrating study, author Joshi examines six writers - masters of the craft of "weird" tales (of horror, the supernatural, fantasy, quasi-science fiction) and explores the characteristic features of the tale. He finds that the weird tale is not principally a genre, but is rather the expression of a distinctive world view that compels readers to rethink their assumptions of what is "real" and "normal."
Print Book, English, 1990
University of Texas Press, Austin, 1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm
9780292790506, 9780292790575, 0292790503, 0292790570
20133726