![]() I’m not saying they’re slumming, and I’m sure they wouldn’t say so either, but it seems that sometimes that’s the only way to get a horror book out there and get some attention is to have it written by a literary writer, who, lover of the genre though he or she might be, is taking a distinctly deconstructivist/literary/ironic take on, say, a zombie crisis or a vampire narrative. ![]() Now it seems like a few horror books come out every year, there are a few dedicated “ horror” writers, and the rest are often “literary takes” on horror themes written by literary writers. I came of age during that boom, though, and I was influenced by not only the bigtime masters, Stephen King and Clive Barker and Robert McCammon and Joe Lansdale and Dean Koontz, but some of the lesser-known but still vital and incredible practitioners like Jack Ketchum and Bentley Little and David Morrell. Some people blame the horror boom of the 80s and 90s-a bunch of crummy books with lurid covers oversaturated the market, turning a lot of casual readers and even a few dedicated ones off the genre. ![]()
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