Now if only the fifth Silver John novel, The Voice of the Mountain, would get released in an affordable edition. Fun fact: my review of the excellent 'complete' John the Balladeer: Who Fears the Devil? volume from Planet Stories books a few years back is far and away the most popular post I've ever written on my blog --
Hmmm, These covers make M.W.W. look more interesting than I thought. I've never been a fan -just too folksy for me, which takes away the fright factor and replaces it with cornpone-at least that was my impression. I have to say the covers are brilliant here though. Must be the same artist on all of them? Funny how in all my bookstore travels I have never run across any of these. Weird!
Highwaykness I hear you; that's my take too. I've read a story here and there and liked them fine and if I find one of these books I'd buy it, but I'm not dying to read more
I've only read one MWW story, 'Vandy, Vandy'. I will say that I liked the atmosphere and the way he clearly had a lot of respect for backwoods folk (as opposed to, say, the attitude of Lovecraft), and I wouldn't mind picking up an anthology of Silver John stories if I found one. That said, the story itself (which I found in the Dark Descent anthology) was much more 'rural modern fantasy' than 'horror'.
Now if only the fifth Silver John novel, The Voice of the Mountain, would get released in an affordable edition. Fun fact: my review of the excellent 'complete' John the Balladeer: Who Fears the Devil? volume from Planet Stories books a few years back is far and away the most popular post I've ever written on my blog --
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Hmmm, These covers make M.W.W. look more interesting than I thought. I've never been a fan -just too folksy for me, which takes away the fright factor and replaces it with cornpone-at least that was my impression. I have to say the covers are brilliant here though. Must be the same artist on all of them? Funny how in all my bookstore travels I have never run across any of these. Weird!
ReplyDeleteCarl Lundgren for the first four, Steve Hickman for the last one.
ReplyDeleteHighwaykness I hear you; that's my take too. I've read a story here and there and liked them fine and if I find one of these books I'd buy it, but I'm not dying to read more
ReplyDeleteI've only read one MWW story, 'Vandy, Vandy'. I will say that I liked the atmosphere and the way he clearly had a lot of respect for backwoods folk (as opposed to, say, the attitude of Lovecraft), and I wouldn't mind picking up an anthology of Silver John stories if I found one. That said, the story itself (which I found in the Dark Descent anthology) was much more 'rural modern fantasy' than 'horror'.
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