Kuratierte Notizen & Neuigkeiten zur Kriminalliteratur | A sheet of notes & news about crime fiction
Author and reviewer Michael Dirda about two books, which collected the forgotten writings of Bram Stoker: The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker, edited by John Edgar Browning and The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years, edited by Elizabeth Miller and Dacre Stoker.
His fine review at The Washington Post.
»When he was twenty-two, Stoker read and fell in love with Walt Whitman’s poetry, finding solace and joy between the covers of Leaves of Grass. And, like many fans, he wanted the connection that he felt to Whitman to be real. Late one night, cloaked in the comfort of darkness, Stoker poured his soul out to Whitman in a shockingly honest letter that described himself and his disposition. That letter, when Stoker finally mustered the courage to mail it, would begin an unexpected literary friendship that lasted until Whitman’s death.«
Meredith Hindley
Meredith Hindley about the friendship between Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker. Her essay at Humanities.
»Jedenfalls schuf Stoker mit seinem Dracula das moderne Vampir-Bild, das heute noch in Spielfilmen und Büchern weiterlebt.«
Manuel Opitz
Manuel Opitz über das Sachbuch Dracula: Leben und Legende des Historikers Heiko Haumann. Seine Kritik bei welt.de.
»Sophie Hannah, Josh Bazell and Denise Mina have reinvented crime fiction; Charles Yu, Iain M Banks and M John Harrison have given a literary uplift to science fiction; while China Miéville, Jeff VanderMeer and Kelly Link have done the same for fantasy. But horror – the third aspect of “speculative fiction” – has had markedly less success. Yet it might be the genre most tractable to our contemporary concerns.«
Stuart Kelly
On the eve of Bram Stokers Birthday Stuart Kelly asks if Horror is a genre doomed to literary hell? His thoughts at guardian.co.uk.
»This is why I found this other “mem for story” in Stoker’s Journal so fascinating. “A man builds up a shadow on a wall bit by bit by adding to substance,” it reads. “Suddenly the shadow becomes alive.” Perhaps it is this vampirish, invisible shadow, so defensive against popular and academic interest, that we identify as Bram Stoker.«
Kaya Genç
Coming Out of the Coffin: Kaya Genç about the recently published Lost Journal of Bram Stoker, edited by Elizabeth Miller and Dacre Stoker. More about the book and Bram Stoker at The New Inquiry.
