The Year's Best Horror Stories 12 by Karl Edward Wagner

Author:Karl Edward Wagner [Wagner, Karl Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE CHAIR by Dennis Etchison

Dennis Etchison describes himself as an “overworked, underslept, professional wrestling fan” with the “goal to teach John Studd a thing or two in the squared circle.” Friends would add that he passed up a career as a stand-up comedian as well, when he turned to writing his own particular brand of horror fiction. Etchison has been selling short fiction since 1961, but only in the last few years has he begun to receive deserved acclaim as the finest writer of psychological horror this genre has produced. It is never an easy matter to make a name (or earn a living) solely through short fiction, and Etchison, never very prolific, didn’t help things with his intensely introspective stories of urban paranoia and personal alienation. Not the average shock fan’s cup of tea.

Incredibly, it took twenty years for his first collection of stories to be published; this, The Dark Country, quickly went through four printings in a deluxe hardcover edition and will be reprinted in paperback this fall by Berkley. A second collection, Red Dreams, is due this October from Scream/Press as a companion volume to The Dark Country, and a novel, Darkside, is due from Berkley in 1985. Etchison also wrote the paperback novelizations of the recent horror films, The Fog, Halloween II, Halloween III, and Videodrome—these last three under his pseudonym, Jack Martin. Born in Stockton, California on March 30, 1943, Etchison now resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches creative writing at UCLA when not writing or watching game shows and wrestling matches on television. Jack Martin, the protagonist of “The Chair,” also appears in The Dark Country.

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