Nah.....I just figure it could be a new genre someday.....but old gothic horror stories rule, I had a long guiness fueled conversation about how much H.P Lovecraft influenced Stephen King,and about how super8 film looks so much better than videotape.The H.P. Lovecraft story,"the rats in the walls" was one of my favorites .He also did this kinda "pseudo mythology" thing in a number of stories too,about dieties who were either indifferent to the plight of mankind or seemed to be full of vengence towrd man. "The Greenwich Horror" was a pretty cool story too. Shit theres a few kinda obsure american writers I dig,not just horror guys either. I was real poor when I was a kid,so some books in our house werent exactly complete. I still have the fragment of "Complete poems of Robert Service" that I learned to read from. I just love Ambrose Bierce too, his cynical,snide and sarcastic wit has never escaped me. Some Jack London is ok,some bites it. But that damn
Lovecraft,holy shit what an imagination.... he died in like 1937 or so and of cancer if memory serves. I like o henry and Thomas Wolfe as well,"you cant go home again" and "the web abd the rock " are both excellent. I also recomend "the devils dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce as well. Nah dont try an teach the kiddies any bad habits....make em go get their own....Im just prattlin on. Bierce defined a novel as being , " A short story,with padding" I mostly agree. :blabla: