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W. Scott Poole on Journey's End
Dec. 25th, 2018 09:41 pmW. Scott Poole's book Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror has only been out a couple months, but I feel comfortable saying it's a good survey of how the experience of WWI shaped horror fiction in the decades immediately following.
( Read more... )Overall I'd recommend buying this book, though I have a couple small qualms*. Here's a link to the publisher's website, which offers a couple ways to get your hands on a copy.
* Namely, I wish there were an index, and I mildly disagree with his assessment that At the Mountains of Madness was Lovecraft's only novel. However, Poole has written and published a biography of Lovecraft, and I, uh, have a blog, so...
( Read more... )Overall I'd recommend buying this book, though I have a couple small qualms*. Here's a link to the publisher's website, which offers a couple ways to get your hands on a copy.
* Namely, I wish there were an index, and I mildly disagree with his assessment that At the Mountains of Madness was Lovecraft's only novel. However, Poole has written and published a biography of Lovecraft, and I, uh, have a blog, so...
