![]() ![]() I finally was able to run down a copy of Wagner’s In a Lonely Place, via Interlibrary Loan. Klein's Dark Gods are all serious contenders as well. *Ramsey Campbell's Dark Companions, Lisa Tuttle's A Nest of Nightmares, and T.E.D. I encourage every fan of weird and horror fiction to give it a go. This book can be hard to come by for a reasonable price these days, at least online (I semi-frequently come across it for cheap while out book-hunting), so thankfully Valancourt is planning to reprint it in the near future. ![]() The aforementioned tales are the standouts for me, but the rest are very near the same quality. ![]() And "Where the Summer Ends" somehow makes something as innocuous as kudzu seem ominous and threatening. It's a toss-up for me between this - Karl Wagner's first horror collection - and Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer for favorite 80s horror collection.* "Sticks" just may be the scariest story I've ever read, with its Lovecraftian cosmic horrors and creepy stick lattices in the woods later made famous in The Blair Witch Project, while the surreal and nightmarish imagery of the King in Yellow-inspired "River of Night's Dreaming" never fails to give me a feeling of both dread and awe, no matter how many times I revisit it. ![]()
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