This is part two of K.C. Redding-Gonzalez’s excellent series on Tanith Lee and Horror.
Zombie Salmon (the Horror Continues)
What this entire “episode” with Tanith Lee has taught me is that our genre needs to grow up…
We have enshrined the period of time which most purely and evidently exemplifies its natural growth from its original Literary DNA – the period we call The Weird. But is that time representative of The End of originality in the genre, or was it a simple (though awesome) creative burst born of circumstance, of writers who could inform each other’s work via education, exposure, or direct contact and support…and then died with them?
I say that like the Horror Boom of the 1970s and 1980s, the period of Weird was an exception – a glorious, once-in-a-lifetime explosion of insight and creativity built on a contrived and flawed premise that men write more and better Horror. And it being over means nothing more than the rest of us go back to the drawing…
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Thank you again, Professor! I think it’s time we took the bull by the horns and start expanding our genre… Maybe there is a writer out there somewhere, ready to wow us with their monsters!
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I hope so. I know that I am trying to tell the best tales I can.
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