The Dark Domain
Author | : Stefan Grabinski |
Publisher | : Dedalus European Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-07-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 1909232041 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781909232044 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Dark Domain written by Stefan Grabinski and published by Dedalus European Classics. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...reading The Dark Domain by Stephan Grabinski is such a revelatory experience. Because here is a writer for whom supernatural horror is manifest precisely in modernity - in electricity, fire-stations, trains: the uncanny as the bad conscience of today. Sometimes Grabinski is known as the Polish Poe but this is misleading. Where Poe's horror is agonised, a kind of extended shriek, Grabinski's is cerebral, investigative. His protagonists are tortured and aghast, but not because they suffer at the caprice of Lovecraftian blind idiot gods: Grabinski's universe is strange and its principles are perhaps not what we expect, but they are principles - rules- and it is in their exploration that the mystery lies. This is horror as rigour.' China Mieville in The Guardia