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Blurb: “Now, in Walls of Fear, editor Cramer has ere-ated a masterly companion volume of all-new stories incorporating houses and architecture, commissioned especially for this book. In addi-tion, she has written an introductory essay on the state of the art of horror fiction that places the book and the stories in context and raises provocative points about the nature of the fiction.
The contributors, many of them well-known novelists, are on the cutting edge of writing in dark fantasy and horror.
Terri Windling praises Cramer for "putting masters of the macabre like Gene Wolfe and Jonathan Carroll alongside talented neweomers like Gwyneth Jones and Susan Palwick." William Gibson says,
"The Jack Womack story alone is worth the price of admission." And there is James Morrow's story of a haunted phone booth, "Tales from a New England Telephone Directory";
Richard A. Lupoff's historical fantasy of H. P.
Lovecraft's visit to New Orleans,
"The House on
Rue Chartres"; Karl Edward Wagner's apocalyptic "Cedar Lane"; and M. J. Engh's haunting and disturbing novella, "Penelope Comes Home." In addition, there are striking and original works from Edward Bryant, Greg Cox, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Chet Williamson, lan Watson, Garry Kilworth, and Sharon Baker.
Walls of Fear is a companion volume to a landmark book, The Architecture of Fear, and is in significant ways superior. It is unquestionably an important contribution to the evolution of the horror story in our time.
Kathryn Cramer is a writer and anthologist who lives in New York City. She is the winner of the World Fantasy Award and is the features editor of The New York Revier of Science Fiction.”