A collection of short horror stories features the work of Peter Atkins, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Peter Straub, Karl Edward Wagner, and others.
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From Booklist
One of the anticipated events in the horror-publishing year is the annual appearance of the Carroll & Graf New Horror anthology. The current installment contains 26 articles and stories. Putting Jones and Campbell at the helm as editors has proved to be a successful formula, merging the perceptions and skills of a master editor (Jones) and a master storyteller (Campbell). Any collection-development librarian wanting to stay informed as to what's going on in the horror genre needs to read the 15-page introduction carefully. It's the most concise and current overview of the field anywhere in print and a highly useful road map for getting one's bearings within one of the most fragmented genres in fiction. The anthology has examples of or discourse on horror subspecialties that include psychological horror (now in vogue), splatterpunk, gothic tales, Lovecraftian stories, and, of course, vampire stories. The book's necrology remains a valuable resource for noting the passing of writers, artists, and filmmakers who have helped define the field. Elliott Swanson
From Kirkus Reviews
``The undeniable strength of horror fiction,'' say editors Jones and Campbell, ``is the very diversity the field has to offer''--a claim borne out in this rewarding fourth entry in their estimable series. The range here is impressive--authors young (Poppy Z. Brite, Kim Newman) and older (John Brunner, Karl Edward Wagner), little- known (Scott Edelman, Sarah Ash) and world-famous (Clive Barker, Peter Straub); stories inspired by sentiment (Barker's ``The Departed,'' a Hallmark card to love from beyond the grave) and idea (Douglas E. Winter's ``Bright Lights, Big Zombie,'' about the mediating power of art--even splatter-art), and powered by shock (Scott Edelman's ``the Suicide Artist,'' a measured pandering to the reader's voyeurism) and disquiet (Thomas Ligotti's ``the Glamour''). Readers interested in the evolution of literary conceits will savor Peter Straub's ``The Ghost Village,'' which (like the other two tales here) first appeared in Dennis Etchison's paperback anthology, MetaHorror, and which, in altered form, surfaced in Straub's The Throat; Poppy Z. Brite's ``How to Get Ahead in New York,'' recycling two characters from her debut novel, Lost Souls; and Kim Newman's ``Red Reign,'' the novella that inspired his Anno Dracula. On the downside, British sensibilities are overemphasized (more than half the contributors, as well as the editors, hail from the UK); but that does allow Americans to relish some fresh overseas talent. And, as always, Jones and Campbell's outspoken summary of the year's horror highlights--and their annual necrology (among the dead in 1992: Pierre Culliford, creator of the Smurfs--``originally the Schtroumpfs'')--are must-reads for horror fans. Again, despite the too-vigorous waving of the Union Jack: the most authoritative and representative volume of what's happening in horror today. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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This review is from: Best New Horror 4 (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror) (Hardcover)
The year 1992.
413 pages. HC. Cost .. 88 cents. Perfect condition. 24 authors from the USA and UK. 13 pages with info on all the horror published in 1992. A bio of each author before each story. ANNUAL OF RECORD. PULSE OF THE GENRE. SOLID CHOICES. ROLLS ROYCE OF THE HORROR SCENE. OCCULT SHOCKERS. SPIFFY. Atkins,Barker, Daniels,Lannes, Newman,Straub, Wagner and more. 10 pgs of 1992 Necrology. Those who were lost to the horror field. A must read. I enjoyed each and every story. You will too. bette b prater okc 62 retired
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