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Okay. There's a certain group of writers; think J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the wonderful Montague Rhodes James[1], William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen...
("Green Tea". "Carmilla". "The Yellow Wallpaper". "The Willows". "Lost Hearts". "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You, My Lad". "A Voice In The Night". "The House on the Borderland". "The White People". "The Monkey's Paw".)
What do you call those guys? (Not looking for superlatives, here. I mean, you've got the Romantics, the Victorians, the Post-Modernists, even the Inklings... and then you have these. And I will be damned if I know what the word for them is. And I know Perkins didn't write a lot in that vein; I'm not sure I should include her if I left out W. W. Jacobs. But "The Yellow Wallpaper" is one hell of an example of what I'm talking about.)
*gives in and adds Jacobs' story to the list above*
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[1] It's "Lost Hearts", really.
("Green Tea". "Carmilla". "The Yellow Wallpaper". "The Willows". "Lost Hearts". "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You, My Lad". "A Voice In The Night". "The House on the Borderland". "The White People". "The Monkey's Paw".)
What do you call those guys? (Not looking for superlatives, here. I mean, you've got the Romantics, the Victorians, the Post-Modernists, even the Inklings... and then you have these. And I will be damned if I know what the word for them is. And I know Perkins didn't write a lot in that vein; I'm not sure I should include her if I left out W. W. Jacobs. But "The Yellow Wallpaper" is one hell of an example of what I'm talking about.)
*gives in and adds Jacobs' story to the list above*
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[1] It's "Lost Hearts", really.
