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Providence After Dark and Other Writings

Tekijä: T. E. D. Klein

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Best known as a writer of supernatural horror, T.E.D. Klein, author of The Ceremonies and Dark Gods, has also written essays, articles, op-ed pieces, and reviews that are provocative, erudite, occasionally splenetic, and always highly opinionated. This book, compiled by S. T. Joshi, presents a wide selection of Klein's nonfiction, including: - A lively account of the first World Fantasy Convention, where the field's most colorful personalities gathered in Providence to honor its native son, H. P. Lovecraft. - Klein's introduction to the Arkham House edition of Lovecraft's shorter tales... His lists of the 13 most terrifying horror stories and the 25 most familiar horror plots. - Memoirs of his college days in Providence, under Lovecraft's spell... His triumphs and blunders as a Paramount script reader... His influential tenure as editor of Twilight Zone magazine... What it was like to work with eccentric (and notorious) director Dario Argento on his first full-length American film. - A pair of groundbreaking New York Times features on cruelty to animals in the movies... A skeptical take on Woody Allen at the turning point in his career... The hitherto unremarked secret of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. - Personal encounters with legendary weird-tale writers Robert Aickman and Donald Wandrei... Appreciations of Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Rod Serling, Ramsey Campbell, and Mark Twain... Reviews of Ruth Rendell, Christopher Priest, William Peter Blatty, and a quartet of Gene Roddenberry biographies. - Plus candid interviews, impassioned editorials for CrimeBeat magazine, and even a couple of poems.… (lisätietoja)
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A collection of a presumably large chunk of Klein's non-fiction writings. The book's major sections: (1) essays on Lovecraft; (2) essays on writers other than Lovecraft, most of whom wrote weird fiction of one sort or another; (3) essays from Klein's time as an editor of Twilight Zone magazine (mostly short editorial notes); (4) Klein's film reviews; (5) Klein's miscellaneous writings on a wild variety of topics, from animal rights to the state of crime in America; (6) Klein's reviews of various books.

I came to this one as a fan of Klein's fiction and interested in what he had to say about Lovecraft and other weird fiction. I wasn't disappointed by any means--Klein is a gifted writer, no matter what subject he's writing--but I'm not certain that all readers will find all sections of the book equally valuable. For my purposes, the first two sections were the most rewarding. It's certainly a comprehensive compilation of Klein's essays, reviews, and interviews, so I do appreciate that it's all here in one place, but I don't know that many of the shorter pieces from decades ago really matter much. Do we really care about what Klein had to say about a substandard book of movie quotations? Perhaps not, but his essays on Lovecraft and other weird fiction writers are worth the price of admission alone. There was one notably painful interview included that I couldn't help but find amusing: an academic is attempting to interview Klein using terminology and syntax that are simply impossible to follow, and Klein has to keep asking the interviewer to rephrase his questions, then gives a two-sentence answer to each. Ah, to have been an uncomfortable fly on that wall during the interview!

For particularly obsessive fans of Klein's work and those seeking copies of his essays on Lovecraft. ( )
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Best known as a writer of supernatural horror, T.E.D. Klein, author of The Ceremonies and Dark Gods, has also written essays, articles, op-ed pieces, and reviews that are provocative, erudite, occasionally splenetic, and always highly opinionated. This book, compiled by S. T. Joshi, presents a wide selection of Klein's nonfiction, including: - A lively account of the first World Fantasy Convention, where the field's most colorful personalities gathered in Providence to honor its native son, H. P. Lovecraft. - Klein's introduction to the Arkham House edition of Lovecraft's shorter tales... His lists of the 13 most terrifying horror stories and the 25 most familiar horror plots. - Memoirs of his college days in Providence, under Lovecraft's spell... His triumphs and blunders as a Paramount script reader... His influential tenure as editor of Twilight Zone magazine... What it was like to work with eccentric (and notorious) director Dario Argento on his first full-length American film. - A pair of groundbreaking New York Times features on cruelty to animals in the movies... A skeptical take on Woody Allen at the turning point in his career... The hitherto unremarked secret of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. - Personal encounters with legendary weird-tale writers Robert Aickman and Donald Wandrei... Appreciations of Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Rod Serling, Ramsey Campbell, and Mark Twain... Reviews of Ruth Rendell, Christopher Priest, William Peter Blatty, and a quartet of Gene Roddenberry biographies. - Plus candid interviews, impassioned editorials for CrimeBeat magazine, and even a couple of poems.

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