mauricebendrix
Crab On The Rampage
The Patron Saint of Envy and the Grocer of Despair
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Post by mauricebendrix on Apr 26, 2018 22:20:48 GMT
Ramsey. Hi. I'm just reading Fine Frights and enjoying it very much. My favourite so far has been Peter Phillips' Lost Memory.
In the introduction to Fine Frights I think you explain your decision to not include King amongst the stories featured in that collection; and you dedicated the anthology "for Peter Straub and Stephen King who deserve to be in this book".
My first question is, which story by each of those authors would you have included in "Fine Frights: Stories that Scared Me" had you done so?
Secondly, if you were to edit a follow-up volume of similar "stories that scared you" which you've read since this one was published (1988) what would they be?
Thanks so much in advance.
Patrick.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Apr 28, 2018 12:52:19 GMT
For Steve back then, "Children of the Corn". In 1988, I'm not sure I knew any of Peter's short stories (I wouldn't have had space for a novella).
A second volume - let me ponder...
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mauricebendrix
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Post by mauricebendrix on May 1, 2018 23:03:05 GMT
Thanks for the reply, Ramsey. Before you come back to the second question, I just wanted to mention that I loved The Fifth Mask and it's now one of only three stories which I remember having read which seem like precursors to your own short fiction; the other two being Fritz Leiber's Smoke Ghost and Graham Greene's A Little Place Off The Edgware Road, though please correct me if you disagree.
To add a third question, which other stories might you consider pointers towards your own style found in books like Demons by Daylight, The Height of the Scream, Dark Companions and Waking Nightmares?
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