Re: RARA-AVIS: THE WEIRD ONES...

From: Doug Bassett ( dj_bassett@yahoo.com)
Date: 17 Feb 2001


I think another obvious example would be Cornell Woolrich, most of whose work seems to me to skirt the boundary between noir and horrific fantasy: I MARRIED A DEAD MAN, BRIDE WORE BLACK, etc.

doug
--- Mark Sullivan < DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
> Among recent books, I'd certainly place all of Jack
> O'Connell's great
> books (Box Nine, Wireless, Skin Palace and Word Made
> Flesh) into this
> field, along with Adam Lloyd Baker's not great, but
> still good New York
> Graphic which seems to follow in O'Connell's wake.
>
> Will Christopher Baer's Kiss Me, Judas is told from
> an untrustworthy,
> halucinatory viewpoint.
>
> John Shannon includes lots of strange LA sightings
> around the periphery
> of his characters and plots..
>
> Finally, several of the new Brit writers dip into
> this area, including
> Nicholas Blincoe and some of Ken Bruen.
>
> Mark
>
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