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     Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.214.42.32 |
Don't see him mentioned very often. Any fans here? I've read a few of his shorts, and last night started his second collection - 'Red Dreams'. His fiction really gets under your skin, makes you feel nervous for the characters - but it's hard to work out why sometimes! I also love how, like Ramsey, he uses ordinary urban settings and makes them feel menacing and 'not quite right'. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Etchison's a superb writer, Lincoln. 'The Dark Country' is a brilliant collection. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I mention Etchison all the time. He's my favourite short story writer - an any genre. Horror's Raymond Carver. His novels are pretty special, too, especially Darkside and Shadowman. Was lucky enough to meet the man at World Horror in Brighton, and spend a pleasant half hour in his company. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.82.216 |
He's been a favourite of mine since the 'eighties and collections such as RED DREAMS and THE DARK COUNTRY, although BLOOD KISS was not quite up there with those two, I felt. Wonderful writer. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
Agreed. I won't easily forget the book produced by The Way of the Wach . . . nor the cannibalistic young girls, brrr. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.147.114.84 |
I think he's a terrific writer, loved "The Dark Country" and "Darkside". "California Gothic" is also very good, plus he did the Cronenberg novelisations (the only one I have is "Videodrome"). He also edited "Cutting Edge", the anthology which really made me want to write horror stories for the rest of my life. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Another Etchison fan here, and I too own and love RED DREAMS. And yes, CUTTING EDGE is one of the superb horror collections of the entire 20th Century. "Horror's Raymond Carver" - Zed, you couldn't have put it better! | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.171.196.112 |
Does his Fine Cuts collection contain any original fiction, or is it material from Red Dreams, Blood Kiss etc? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Lincoln - it's all reprints (which is why I didn't buy it). The retrospective collection Talking in the Dark (which I did buy) does contain one original story, though. That's a cracking book. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Drat, I saw a second hand copy of 'Cutting Edge' the other week and didn't get it. Hope it's still there! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
'Cutting Edge' is a superb antho - like Mark, I owe a lot to that book. | ||
| James Armstrong (James_armstrong) Username: James_armstrong Registered: 10-2010 Posted From: 86.185.188.238 |
I’ve loved Etchison ever since I read his short story ‘Talking in the Dark’. It profoundly affected me; I felt the same exciting frisson as when I read my first Campbell tale. Needless to say, as original as they both are, there’s definitely an affinity between both their stuff. I’ve currently got Darkside and Double Edge on my ‘to be read’ pile. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.147.114.84 |
Stevie - try your hardest to get hold of it, it's bloody brilliant. Roberta Lannes' story "Goodnight, Dark Love" (title from memory) was - and is, probably - one of the darkest things I've ever read. I got to the end of the collection and realised that the only thing holding back a horror writer was his, or her, self. Superb stuff. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
The Lannes is a great story- I enjoyed quite a lot of her work in the mid-to-late 90s. On a sidenote, met her at WHC this year and she's a truly lovely lady as well. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.46.98 |
Add me to the list of Etchison fans! I think The Dark Country is his strongest collection (the ones I have are the three published by Scream Press ages ago with the J.K. Potter illustrations). I read his anthology Cutting Edge while I was in hospital recovering from my first spine operation back in the mid nineties. He is a very bleak kind of writer (I can see why Zed likes him so much). | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
'The Lannes is a great story- I enjoyed quite a lot of her work in the mid-to-late 90s. On a sidenote, met her at WHC this year and she's a truly lovely lady as well.' Didn't get to chat to her at WHC but luckily she sat next to me on the train back north. Really enjoyed chatting with her. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
I have Etchison's collection "THE DEATH ARTIST" (from Leisure) in my read pile. I suppose it to be a mélange of previous collections, not an original one. Anyone about it? Ciao! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.185.202 |
Giancarlo, no – Fine Cuts samples all previous collections but The Death Artist is an original collection. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.194.128 |
Dennis Etchison is currently writing new short fiction, I hear from his friend Lisa Morton. Last I heard, he was in the market for a publisher. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
I have the Leisure edition of "The Death Artist" too - it's now sneaked up my TBR pile a bit! |