Maybe wiser heads here will have a better comparison, but the
only one I can think of is the rather obscure NIGHT OF THE
JABBERWOCK, by Frederic Brown. With less quirkiness. Bardin
was interested in psychological extremes of existence and
questions of identity, creepy and noirish in a paranoid kind
of way.
Penguin published a three volume set of Bardin's works called
THE JOHN FRANKLIN BARDIN OMNIBUS. If you can find it in a
used bookstore, it's worth picking up. The first novel, THE
DEADLY PERCHERON, might give you a sense of what Bardin's
like: guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says his
life is being controlled by little men who pay him to do
things. The psychiatrist is of course skeptical, but then he
meets one of the men.
Sounds like a comic set-up, but this is not a comic novel,
interestingly enough.
doug
--- Neddal Ayad <
nayad@mun.ca> wrote:
> > Bardin's DEVIL TAKE THE BLUE-TAILED FLY, which
was
> > effectively weird and noirish. My favorite
Bardin
> is
> Weird like Jack O'Connell or weird like
Thomas
> Ligotti?
> --
> -N
>
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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