“Doorways,” for example, presents entries into other worlds, in a florid (and lurid) passage from the play Paradise Street and a chilling snippet from the novel The Great and Secret Show (1990). “Private Legends,” Barker’s detailed introduction, offers interesting revelations about pivotal moments in his youth that influenced his development as writer, painter, and filmmaker it also firmly distances the author from the realistic tradition and sturdily defends what he rather grandly calls “the fantastique.” The book is arranged in 13 sections representing favorite themes. A mega-anthology of (mostly) excerpts from novels and plays by the popular and critically acclaimed horror writer whose increasingly ambitious work keeps pushing against genre boundaries.
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