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Tag: Horace Walpole

J. Sheridan Le Fanu & the Critics: Seen Through Other Eyes

August 2, 2018 GW Thomas 0

If you read anything by Jack Sullivan or Mike Ashley you will see that today J. Sheridan Le Fanu has fans. Horror fans. He has been acknowledged as the first man to make a living writing horror stories. He was the linchpin between the clunky old Gothics of Radcliffe and Read More

Why Write Horror?

January 26, 2018 GW Thomas 0

Why write horror? Why not the socially more accepted Science Fiction or Fantasy, in which the reader experiences wonder and the heights of imagination? Why not the even safer Mystery or Western? Literary forms so conventionalized you don’t have to worry about stepping on toes. Go to even greater lengths Read More