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"This is not a book for easy reading; it's
meant to build arguments, map out new territories and stretch minds in
new critical directions." "The inestimable value of this book is that
it does provide a language for talking about horror that takes us beyond
mere sensation. This is not only a valuable, perhaps an essential work
of criticism, it is also an extraordinarily handsome volume." "John Clute wields his considerable talents to give us an insight into
the Horror genre, into what the genre does and why it is important. It's
a significant book, small in dimensions but large in voice and captivating
in content." "A novelist-critic-editor whose specialty is the literature of the fantastic
defines the terms of his chosen genre in highly idiosyncratic manner. This
beautifully produced limited edition is illustrated by 30 artists, including
locals Art Chantry, Jacob Covey, Kaela Graham, Adam Grano, Karen Kirchhoff,
Jeff Kleinsmith, Jessica Lynch and Shawn Wolfe." "The Darkening Garden is echt Clute, both brilliant and baroque." "Payseur & Schmidt has quickly gained a reputation
for producing beautiful little books. With Clute's The Darkening Garden, they've created
something extraordinary." "...I'm excited about reading John Clute's book The Darkening Garden...," "...genuinely serious consideration of the articles contained in this
book can easily lead to disorientation and even brief periods of blind
panic..." "...a beautiful book is just a kind of elaborate facade without contents
worth reading. Clute's thirty short explorations of various types of horror
transform this beautiful book into an essential one." "It's provocative and intriguing ’Äî and fun to page through just for the
pictures." "...at other points in The Darkening Garden, Clute suborns It's
A Wonderful Life, Through the Looking Glass, The Wind
in the Willows, Cosi Fan Tutti, Kafka's Metamorphosis,
Bob Dylan, James Joyce, Stephen Sondheim, Federico Garcia Lorca, and
a variety of other texts and artists ... I found this short lexicon to
be thought-provoking, lucidly — and sometimes gorgeously — written, and
full of persuasive and cannily observed ideas about modern horror." "Clute [doesn't] so much define a topic, a trope, a meme if you will as
create a story about it." "Brooks asked me if I had something and I said I had this and he said
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