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Fantasy as horror

Fantasy as horror

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Gnarly, grim shit.

In the foreword to Brian McNaughton’s grotesque and brilliant Throne of Bones, Alan Rogers argues the case that fantasy as a genre of literature has two distinct paths. One largely in the wake of Tolkien: the high fantasy tale rooted in the traditions of classical literature, legends, and a sort of European Medieval aesthetic. The othe…

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