yet another rave for Datlow's Inferno
May. 15th, 2009 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogIn the new issue of the print magazine Dead Reckonings there's an excellent review by June Pulliam of Ellen Datlow's (
ellen_datlow's) award-winning anthology Inferno, in which I'm privileged to have a story.I'm obviously tongue-tied with modesty over the fact that my story, "Lives", is one of those singled out for a thumbs-up; I might perhaps be less coy were it not that it's one of those very nice references that doesn't readily adapt to quotation out of context.
The review ends:
In his introduction to The Modern Weird Tale, S.T. Joshi says that he considers horror to be a subset of weird fiction rather than the other way around since horror is less inclusive, and has to be subdivided into supernatural and non-supernatural in order to accommodate all the types of fiction that publishers and fans thrust beneath its umbrella. The stories collected in Inferno validate Joshi’s definition in how they cannot easily be defined by any parameters of horror or its various subgenres, but instead, subtly blend many of its tropes in ways that transcend the often narrow definition of horror.
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Date: 2009-05-15 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-16 03:08 am (UTC)Many thanks!
It's really Ellen it's the great news for -- the full review really is a bit of a rave. But I'm happy to bask in the reflection of her glory . . .
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Date: 2009-05-15 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-16 03:08 am (UTC)Ooodlesa thanx.
It's really Ellen it's the great news for -- the full review really is a bit of a rave. But I'm happy to bask in the reflection of her glory . . .
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Date: 2009-05-16 05:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-17 12:55 am (UTC)"Congratulations on your review"
It's you who deserves the congrats!