If you read a lot of horror literature because you like to be scared, then you’re probably a normal, healthy person. If you read horror literature to fulfill some deeply personal predisposition, be assured there is probably something odd and unwholesome about you. Don’t ever let anyone tell you it’s […]
Published in 1910, Algernon Blackwood’s The Human Chord is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a good novel. But it is a strange and intermittently interesting one, and historically important in that it attempts to give fictional life to some of the key ideas of the Hermetic Order of […]
“The good thing about the novel is that it can really be anything.”—Robert Glück, Paris Review interview (Art of Fiction no. 260), Fall 2023 Novels are vexing. Reading them, writing them, thinking about them. Vexing! I write this having read another novel that had lots of elements I enjoyed and […]