What They Wrote: In Praise of Dark Fiction

What They Wrote is a collection of introductions, articles, and reviews by Jack Ketchum of various horror novels and collections. Included here are introductions for works by Edward Lee, Stanley Wiater, Barry Hoffman, Kealan Patrick Burke, Thomas Tessier, P.D. Cacek, Lucy Taylor, Tim Lebbon, T.M. Wright, and Rio Youers. Also included are reviews of two Stephen King novels, a John Carpenter movie, and a Richard Laymon novel. Contents of this collection: Edward Lee's Quest for Sex, Truth and Reality - Introduction On The Haunting of Hill House - Essay Mysteries of the Word - by Stanley Wiater - Introduction The Midnight Tour by Richard Laymon - Review Judas Eyes - by Barry Hoffman - Introduction Monochrome Love - The Alchemy of Love - by Elizabeth Engstrom & Alan M. Clark The Painter Next Door - On Neal McPheeters, for an Unpublished Collection of his Work - Introduction Midlisters - by Kealan Patrick Burke - Introduction Tessier and the Wolf - The Nightwalkers by Thomas Tessier - Introduction In the Spirit by P. D. Cacek - Introduction Bag of Bones by Stephen King - Review On Chas. Balun: An Opinion of an Opinion - Introduction "It's the Dog Scene That Gets Me" - On John Carpenter's The Thing On Header, Needlepoint, and the Journal of American Medicine - Header by Edward Lee - Introduction Fatal Journeys - by Lucy Taylor - Introduction White and Other Tales of Ruin - by Tim Lebbon - Introduction Dark Arts - Thomas F. Monteleone - Introduction On I am Legend by Richard Matheson - Article Robert E. Howard's Typewriter - SHIFTERS by Edward Lee & John Pelan - Introduction Some Seeds Take - Strange Seed by T. M. Wright - Introduction 'What Rio Sees' - All That I See - by Rio Youers - Introduction From a Buick 8 by Stephen King - Review A Short Peter Straub Companion - Written for the 2006 World Horror Convention Program Book