Re: So...
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Radovarl (IP Logged)
Date: 16 January, 2008 06:35AM
Lin Carter - I don't think I've much anything by Carter, though I've read countless story collections and other things that he edited. As I understand it, his pastiches of Lovecraft, Howard, CAS, etc. are mediocre. If you really want to try him out, though, start with The Book of Eibon from Chaosium, since it is Klarkash-tonian.
Robert Price - Another editor, unless I'm thinking of the wrong Price.
Robert Bloch - Never read anything by him, though of course Psycho is supposed to be a classic of its type.
Fritz Leiber - Call me a philistine, but I prefer Leiber's "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" saga over much of his other work. These can be had in any number of editions, most OOP, but Dark Horse is putting out new trade paperbacks of the seven usual titles (in order, Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Death, Swords in the Mist, the Swords of Lankhmar, Swords Against Wizardry, Swords Against Ice Magic, and The Knight and Knave of Swords); his short horror fiction is also quite good, especially things like "Smoke Ghost" and "Horrible Imaginings". These are fairly difficult to find in print, and difficult to find at all for less than an arm and a leg. I would recommend the collection The Leiber Chronicles--nice selection of stories from throughout his career, smaller price tag than some other recent offerings. I find that his science fiction hasn't aged well, but it's not bad either.
Lord Dusany (sp?) - I agree with Michael Moorcock on Dunsany, he is "Slight but inoffensive". His stuff is nicely written, very strange, but ultimately not all that interesting.
Algernon Blackwood - wouldn't know, though HPL considered "The Willows" the greatest weird tale ever written.