Given the reactions I've read to Poppy Z. Brite's work I get the sense that
people on this list don't like her as a writer. Contemporary horror
fiction has been traditionally a male-dominated genre. The so-called
masters (like Stephen King, Peter Straub, Whitley Streiber, etc.) have
broken, and re-set the conventions for the genre. The question is, what do
women horror writers, who are obviously dealing with the weighty influences
of the predecessors and contemporaries (most of whom are male) and the
vicissitudes of their audience, do?
Erik
Erik Tsao
Graduate Student
Department of English
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
"The naked Senses sometimes see too little -- but then _always_ they see
too much."
--Edgar Allan Poe
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