Bob Toomey wrote:
> Hardboiled is
> grounded in a skeptical, cynical, unsentimental view
of the world.
> Horror is the polar opposite -- romantic,
sentimental, emotional.
Perhaps if by "horror" one means those bodice-ripper Gothics
that were popular decades ago or the ghost stories of the
19th century and early 20th century. Or today's Mary Higgins
clones. But if you're suggesting that the horror of the last
two decades is limited to "romantic, sentimental, emotional"
prose, you may want to sample a Lansdale, Laymon, Schow,
Bloch, Ketchum, Garton, McCammon, King, Koontz (okay, maybe
you're right about him), Campbell, Brandner or a host of
other horror luminaries who would savage your view into
hardboiled, cynical, unsentimental, bloody ribbons by the end
of the first chapter.
Ron Clinton
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