Driven to Madness with Fright: Further Notes on Horror Fiction

For more than 30 years, S. T. Joshi has been a pioneering critic of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction. This new collection of his essays and reviews covers the entire range of weird fiction, from Romantic poetry to the work of Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson. Particularly insightful are Joshi's assessments of such contemporary writers as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Thomas Ligotti, and Reggie Oliver. Joshi, the leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, also provides pungent analyses of recent works of Lovecraftian fiction by such figures as W. H. Pugmire and Darrell Schweitzer, as well as incisive reviews of recent works of Lovecraft scholarship. All in all, this book will engage, entertain, and inform all devotees of weird fiction. This expanded edition contains further reviews of the work of Richard Gavin, Mark Samuels, Joel Lane, and several recent works pertaining to Lovecraft and anthologies of Lovecraftian fiction.