Shadowings: The Reader's Guide To Horror Fiction, 1981-1982

by Douglas E. Winter (Editor)

Book by Winter, William C.

Genres: Horror

148 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Douglas E. Winter is an American writer, critic and lawyer. A life-long interest in horror has led him to develop a parallel career as horror writer and horror critic. Winter edited horror anthologies Prime Evil (1988), and Revelations (1997) as well as the interviews collection Faces of Fear (1985, revised 1990). He has also written biographies of Stephen King and Clive Barker. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

Reviews

[Jack Tripper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cover of the 1983 Starmont Press paperback, 148 pages (editor is Douglas E. Winter, not William C. Winter as listed on this page).

Contains essays by King, Dennis Etchison, Karl Wagner, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Alan Ryan, Douglas Winter, Charles Grant, and more. They explore the current (at the time) state of horror fiction, and there are seemingly hundreds of books discussed, and this guide only covers two years! (though of course there are many references to earlier works as well) Most of these essays and reviews were articles taken from issues of old magazines like Fantasy Newsletter, Whispers, and such.