Literary Horror discussion

Any thoughts about this guy?
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
He is rather well known in his native France, both as a folklorist of some renown and as a prolific author of supernatural/horror fiction. Only a portion of his work has been translated to English. Right now, both "The Accursed" (contains two short novels of his) and "Nightcharmer and Other Tales" can be acquired for cheaps. I'm going through the first novel in "The Accursed" right now, sort of family tragedy that unravels across two generations. Third chapter was quite memorable in how elegantly it went from its mundane beginning to this dreamlike eeriness of its second portion. Claude SeignolleClaude Seignolle

Paul wrote: "Any thoughts about this guy?
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
He is rather well known in his native France, both as a folklorist of some renown and as a prolific autho..."

I have, but haven't yet read his Nightcharmer and Other Tales of Claude Seignolle, but not the other one. Thanks for the reminder -- I'm going to read this one after I finish my current book.

Took it off the French shelves -- thanks again.

Nancy wrote: "I have, but haven't yet read his Nightcharmer and Other Tales of Claude Seignolle, but not the other one. Thanks for the reminder -- I'm going to read this one after I finish my current book."
I own that one too, but I'm also yet to read it. I do love how it seems to be richly illustrated, which is nice to see in a volume in its price range. Anyway, that titular tale was actually included in "The Weird", tho it was a different translation with another title ("The Ghoul-bird"). That was the only thing by him that I've read prior to starting with "The Accursed".

There's also this https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Decent little novella dealing with possession and sexuality but not nearly as good as to justify that price, I'm afraid. (nor is it deserving of that exuberant praise in the blurb, but hey Ex Occidente sure loves their pompous and annoyingly pretentious presentation)
Let's put it like this : if that novella was included in "The Nightcharmer and Other Tales..." it wouldn't be one of the best stories in there.
Still, worth a read in the unlikely case that it ever gets reprinted in some anthology or other.

So, I just finished the first short novel in "The Accursed". In a way, it's a rather simple story and you know what sort of fate awaits father and his daughter from early on. It's no less impactful and tragic for that, it has this fatalistic air to it. Accursed barren land, whose nature is always to take rather than to give, gets its own in the end. There's also this matter-of-fact way in which its characters sometimes treat the supernatural, something that fits the time and place. I thought the writing quite pretty, tho I guess that some might it overly descriptive at times (indeed, it is as if everything switched to slow-motion at some points).