Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) 1 and Ramsey Campbell are the two leading writers of weird fiction since Lovecraft. In making this assertion I am not merely bypassing other writers who, at least in their own minds, aspire to that title—in particular the best-selling quartet of Stephen King , Peter Straub, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker—but am …
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