"New Pulp": The Retro-/Neo- Pulp Fiction Revolution
Jul 10, 2017 12:18:58 GMT -5
Post by deuce on Jul 10, 2017 12:18:58 GMT -5
If there is a "Lovecraft" in the PulpRev scene at this point, it would be Misha Burnett. Here's a look at his story for Cirsova #5, "In the Gloaming":
www.castaliahouse.com/praise-for-the-short-fiction-of-misha-burnett/
Burnett's philosophy regarding the Monstrous in horror fiction:
thepulparchvist.blogspot.com/2017/07/misha-burnett-on-horror.html
Modern horror writers rely on increasingly gruesome depictions of violence and cruelty to try to awaken the reader’s sense of moral outrage.
It is from that sense of moral outrage that the horror genre gets its power. A hurricane can kill people and destroy property on a great scale, but a hurricane is not a monster. (Granted, you can write a ripping yarn about people trapped in the path of a hurricane and struggling to survive, but it’s not horror.)
To be monstrous, the antagonist must be not merely hazardous, but also wrong. Wrong in an objective sense–Something That Should Not Be.
It is in the deliberate fostering of a sense of injustice that a writer invokes true horror.
-- Misha Burnett
The PulpRev is here.
www.castaliahouse.com/praise-for-the-short-fiction-of-misha-burnett/
Burnett's philosophy regarding the Monstrous in horror fiction:
thepulparchvist.blogspot.com/2017/07/misha-burnett-on-horror.html
Modern horror writers rely on increasingly gruesome depictions of violence and cruelty to try to awaken the reader’s sense of moral outrage.
It is from that sense of moral outrage that the horror genre gets its power. A hurricane can kill people and destroy property on a great scale, but a hurricane is not a monster. (Granted, you can write a ripping yarn about people trapped in the path of a hurricane and struggling to survive, but it’s not horror.)
To be monstrous, the antagonist must be not merely hazardous, but also wrong. Wrong in an objective sense–Something That Should Not Be.
It is in the deliberate fostering of a sense of injustice that a writer invokes true horror.
-- Misha Burnett
The PulpRev is here.
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