tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173887948269031901.post5308735450517600748..comments2024-03-26T01:21:57.869+00:00Comments on Supernatural Tales: United States of the Supernaturalvaldemarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03829872956512652469noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173887948269031901.post-50838642365092551182015-07-05T16:23:47.937+00:002015-07-05T16:23:47.937+00:00I agree with all the above. 'Enoch' is ind...I agree with all the above. 'Enoch' is indeed a cracking story. It was certainly kicking around in anthologies during the Seventies, which is probably when I read it. <br /><br />I could of course have mentioned a dozen other American writers. I left out Poe's contemporary Hawthorne because his work is more Gothic/Romantic than horror, but 'Young Goodman Brown' is one of several spooky tales that work very well. I also omitted Abraham Merritt and Robert E. Howard for similar reasons - more fantasy than horror, but both interesting. Then there are Karl Edward Wagner, Charles L. Grant, Russell Kirk, Jessica Salmonson... <br /><br />The problem with making lists is that they can go on forever, or until you get fed up.valdemarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03829872956512652469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173887948269031901.post-74999215272394958152015-07-05T14:55:51.154+00:002015-07-05T14:55:51.154+00:00Re-reading 'October Country' right now, fu...Re-reading 'October Country' right now, funnily enough. You're right about Bradbury: he's very good but his very consistency suggests a writer who never really evolved - I guess if it's not broken, why try to fix it?<br /><br />I mentioned a great little story by Bloch on another site - and maybe on this one - 'Enoch'. I first came across it in one of Peter Haining's ubiquitous anthologies.<br /><br />Re Bierce. The story by him that really sticks on my mind is 'The Death if Halpin Frayser', maybe because the explanation is all in the subtext and you have to read it at least three times to decipher it!Aonghus Fallonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09434527113873901741noreply@blogger.com