Who Do You Think Are The Most Neglected and Forgotten Writers?

[hitmouse]

It's not fantasy even though classified as such.

Why do you think it isn't?

 

[hitmouse]

And I believe that Mary Gentle and Michael Moorcock, among others, have tipped their authorial hats to Peake in some of their fiction.

Moorcock knew Peake towards the end of the latter's life, and has written movingly about it.

 

[BAYLOR]

Why do you think it isn't?

None of the tropes of fantasy like magic, are evident.

 

[Bick]

None of the tropes of fantasy like magic, are evident.

But does it not take place in a world that does not, and could not, exist?

 

[BAYLOR]

But does it not take place in a world that does not, and could not, exist?

Good point.

 

[The Big Peat]

There's a wonderful interview somewhere with Peake in which he talks about Gormenghast being fantasy due to it being a fantastical society. Wish I could find it.



If I was to pick one name to join this thread, it'd be Arthur Machen. Perhaps people thought he was too well known to be worth mentioning, but his name certainly isn't in common usage amongst those I know, and his work is still worth reading.



Incidentally, on the subject of horror, count me in with the people saying Horror needs no supernatural or even speculative element. Films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Saw are too embedded in the Horror genre to say otherwise imo, and once you make the exception there, a ton of others suggest themselves.

 

[BAYLOR]

There's a wonderful interview somewhere with Peake in which he talks about Gormenghast being fantasy due to it being a fantastical society. Wish I could find it.



If I was to pick one name to join this thread, it'd be Arthur Machen. Perhaps people thought he was too well known to be worth mentioning, but his name certainly isn't in common usage amongst those I know, and his work is still worth reading.



Incidentally, on the subject of horror, count me in with the people saying Horror needs no supernatural or even speculative element. Films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Saw are too embedded in the Horror genre to say otherwise imo, and once you make the exception there, a ton of others suggest themselves.

Ive not often seen Machen in the bookstores.

 

[hitmouse]

Ive not often seen Machen in the bookstores.

Usually found in the Penguin Classics section.

 

[Randy M.]

Bought ~1974 in a Carl's Drug Store, which had roughly 1/2 a wall of paperbacks. I still have them.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Bought ~1974 in a Carl's Drug Store, which had roughly 1/2 a wall of paperbacks. I still have them.

The pictures don't come up.
Do they work for anybody else?

 

[Randy M.]

Huh. They show in Firefox, but not in Chrome or Edge. Odd.

 

[Randy M.]

This better?

 

[dask]

I see them okay.

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

William Horwood seems to be very underrated, yet his fantasy is brilliant.

 

[BAYLOR]

William Horwood seems to be very underrated, yet his fantasy is brilliant.

Read a bit on him. He does sound interesting .

 

[BAYLOR]

Richard Lupoff .

 

[BAYLOR]

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This better?

They recently did a hardcover reissue of his stories .

 

[BAYLOR]

Leigh Brackett

 

[Rodders]

i only know her for her screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back. My favourite film, so kudos.

 

[BAYLOR]

i only know here for her screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back. My favourite film, so kudos.

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