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'...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
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The Dark Domain, Stefan Grabiński
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- The Dark Domain
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stefan Grabiński
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 153
- ISBN10
- 1909232041
- ISBN13
- 9781909232044
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories, Horror, Horror Short Stories, Gothic, Poland, Gothic Horror, Weird & New Weird
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- '...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