Kipling Wrote:
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> It would seem to, but is the backwoods region
> Wagner describes really all that unique? The cause
> and effect suggestion isn't brought to bear as it
> is in Bierce's "The Death of Halpin Frayser", , or
> those stories Platypus cited. Maybe Wagner's
> haunted wood is not sufficiently outre to meet my
> criteria, but in one of his tales of Kane, I
> forget which one, he did so.
There are two other writers who seem to sometimes do regionally flavored stories: Manly Wade Wellman's "John the Balladeer" stories, and R. A. Lafferty has at least one. I think it's called "All the Pieces of a River Shore".
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Lafferty is pretty much hard to classify. He writes in related genres, probably uncanny is the best description. He is a sort of primitive emotionalist who can evoke quite a response.
E.g., "Ride a Tin Can" can get to you.
--Sawfish
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