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Danse MacabreAnd Conan will be happy to effect said rescue . . . if the price is right. Herbert's work is set firmly in England's present, most commonly against the backdrop of London or the southern counties which surround it. Howard was brought up in rural circumstances ( he lived and died in a small sagebrush town called Cross Plains, Texas); Herbert was born in London's East End, the son of street traders, and his work reflects a checkered career as a rock and roll singer, artist, and ad executive. It is in the elusive matter of style-a confusing word that may be most accurately defined as "plan or method of attack"-that Herbert strongly recalls the Howard that was. In his novels of horror-The Rats, The Fog, The Survivor, The Spear, The Lair, and The Dark-Herbert does not just write; as Robert E. Howard did, he puts on his combat boots and goes out to assault the reader with horror. Let me also take a moment to point out one similarity that James Herbert and Ramsey Campbell do share, simply by virtue of their Englishness: they both write that clear, lucid, grammatical prose that only those educated in England seem able to produce ...» |
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