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Lygia Fagundes Telles (Brazil; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Fag…) is a highly decorated novelist whose stories & novels are more horror-inflected than pure horror. She writes psychological stories with dreamlike, nightmarish, or hallucinatory atmospheres.
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Lygia Fagundes Telles (Brazil; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Fag…) is a highly decorated novelist whose stories & novels are more horror-inflected than pure horror. She writes psychological stories with dreamlike, nightmarish, or hallucinatory atmospheres.
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Telles' characters—usually women—are customarily alone and experience misunderstanding, conflict, disillusionment, deceit, fear, and death, with conflicts not being happily resolved and the narrative tension not being relieved.
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It is in Telles' short stories that she most often uses the supernatural and the surreal, with shifting realities being a norm. Occasionally she uses surreal elements as an allegory against the oppressive Brazilian government.
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Jonathan Aycliffe (UK; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Mac…) is a respected academic who writes think-pieces and thrillers as well as horror. I’m of the opinion that his horror is better than the rest of his work, despite those being more popular.
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Jonathan Aycliffe (UK; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Mac…) is a respected academic who writes think-pieces and thrillers as well as horror. I’m of the opinion that his horror is better than the rest of his work, despite those being more popular.
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Aycliffe works in the Gothic mode, relying on psychological complexity, atmosphere, and setting to terrify the reader rather than overt horror or the suggestion of or appearance of the visceral or cosmic.
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Aycliffe’s strengths are in creating the sense of an atmosphere sodden with terror & in creating modern characters w/modern strengths and foibles. Aycliffe is supremely good at mood, although sometimes at the expense of a novel’s plot.
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