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 - IntroductionOn The Haunting of Hill House - EssayMysteries of the Word - by Stanley Wiater - IntroductionThe Midnight Tour by Richard Laymon - ReviewJudas Eyes - by Barry Hoffman - IntroductionMonochrome Love - The Alchemy of Love - by Elizabeth Engstrom & Alan M. ClarkThe Painter Next Door - On Neal McPheeters, for an Unpublished Collection of his Work - IntroductionMidlisters - by Kealan Patrick Burke - IntroductionTessier and the Wolf - The Nightwalkers by Thomas Tessier - IntroductionIn the Spirit by P. D. Cacek - IntroductionBag of Bones by Stephen King - ReviewOn Chas. Balun: An Opinion of an Opinion - Introduction"It's the Dog Scene That Gets Me" - On John Carpenter's The ThingOn Header, Needlepoint, and the Journal of American Medicine - Header by Edward Lee - IntroductionFatal Journeys - by Lucy Taylor - IntroductionWhite and Other Tales of Ruin - by Tim Lebbon - IntroductionDark Arts - Thomas F. Monteleone - IntroductionOn I am Legend by Richard Matheson - ArticleRobert E. Howard's Typewriter - SHIFTERS by Edward Lee & John Pelan - IntroductionSome Seeds Take Strange Seed by T. M. Wright - Introduction'What Rio Sees' - All That I See - by Rio Youers - IntroductionFrom a Buick 8 by Stephen King - ReviewA Short Peter Straub Companion - Written for the 2006 World Horror Convention Program Book