Douglas E. Winter (review date 1997)
SOURCE: Winter, Douglas E. “Those Eldritch Horrors.” Book World 27, no. 43 (26 October 1997): 6.
[In the following review, Winter offers a favorable assessment of Tales of H. P. Lovecraft and The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft.]
Fear lurks in the shadows of American letters, its pleasures plebeian and guilty. The “genre” fiction of horror and the supernatural is Cain to the Abel of literary fiction, maligned and maverick, until time heals its wounds and makes it classic, if not literature.
...Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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