Packages from the Postman

[Charon]

I don't buy much these days, as i need to catch up reading my older books, but these are considered highlights from the last months:

- ''Things Seen and Unseen'' by Terry Lamsley (Centipede Press)

I have all his publications, but i couldn't resist to this one! Note that in about a year and a half a Master Of The Weird Tale from Terry Lamsley will be released....

- ''The Martyrs'' by Jamie Walsh & '' Gloom Circus'' by Ben Mee with Jamie Walsh (Broodcomb Press)

Latest Broodcomb Press books, always happy to receive new fiction from the Peninsula!

- ''Collected Fiction Volume 4 (Revisions and Collaborations): A Variorum Edition'' by H.P. Lovecraft (Hippocampus Press)

The fourth and last hardback that was published recently by Hippocampus Press. This set is finally complete!

 

[Lucian Taylor]

Finally got around to buying Visiting Maze by Michael Cisco.

 

[Mr Fatigue]

My new phone case from Happy*Cases77 on Ebay UK. It is small thing, but it makes my happy anyway. Recently I lost accidentally my old phone. I chose this picture as I like both that painting and "The Last Feast of Harlequin".

 

[Athammaus]

Pre-ordered items (and one reprint) delivered this week:

'The Domain of the Pale Queen' by Benjamin Tweddell (Nepenthe Press)

'The Revenants' by O. Jamie Walsh (Broodcomb Press)

'The Martyrs' by O. Jamie Walsh (Broodcomb Press)

'Gloom Circus' by Ben Mee (Broodcomb Press)

 

[Mersennus1951]

Exactly. I have the same impression. Writers like Stephen King, and much of what dominates the so-called horror genre in its thoroughly vulgarized form, seem to believe that frightening the reader simply means inserting the supernatural into everyday life or destabilizing the ordinary foundations of reality. The problem is that, in their case, the result often becomes a purely commercial and short-lived kind of horror, lacking that deeper unease produced by a reality that already feels distorted from the very first page. I also want poetry from the opening sentence. I would rather read a prose style that embodies a particular state of mind, even when apparently nothing happens, than writing that is merely immediate, functional, and narrative-driven...

 

[Cronopio]

Exactly. I have the same impression. Writers like Stephen King, and much of what dominates the so-called horror genre in its thoroughly vulgarized form, seem to believe that frightening the reader simply means inserting the supernatural into everyday life or destabilizing the ordinary foundations of reality. The problem is that, in their case, the result often becomes a purely commercial and short-lived kind of horror, lacking that deeper unease produced by a reality that already feels distorted from the very first page. I also want poetry from the opening sentence. I would rather read a prose style that embodies a particular state of mind, even when apparently nothing happens, than writing that is merely immediate, functional, and narrative-driven...

To each his own. I see merit in both ways of approaching the horror story. Then again, of course there is going to be a lot of sub-par writing in every field.