Hyde'? Is George Orwell either a 'horror' or 'science fiction' writer in light of his two most famous works, '1984' and 'Animal Farm'? Let's face it, many of the novels we consider classics today simply transcend genre, in no small part due to the fact that they manage to mash more than one together, producing works that resonate in our imaginations. How about Cormac McCarthy? No one would ever deem him a 'horror' writer, but then how does one categorize 'The Road'? Is Robert Louis Stevenson a 'horror' writer because he wrote 'The Strange Case of Dr. And yet I've never heard Anthony Burgess referred to as a 'horror' writer or a 'science fiction' writer. After all, how would one categorize 'A Clockwork Orange'? Is it horror? Yes. The genre in which the story falls is not nearly as important as the story itself. But this can be an unfair burden, as writers are far less compartmentalized in their thinking. The motivation for this, of course, lies in commerce, as well as questionable (and outdated) notions about the consumer mind.

They want a writer's work to fit neatly into a specific genre. Lansdale (Edge of Dark Water, Bullets and Fire) Matthew Pearl (The Dante Club, The Technologists) Louis Bayard (The School of Night, The Black Tower) Lyndsay Faye (The Gods of Gotham, Dust and Shadow) Charles Johnson (Middle Passage, Oxherding Tale) AND MORE Sixteen stories and poems that redefine the boundary between horror and literature FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY ANTHOLOGY EDITOR, GREG KISHBAUGH: THE BLURRED LINE Publishers love categories, as do bookstores.

THE BURNING MAIDEN Where Literature and the Supernatural Meet Sixteen new short stories from bestselling authors.

The Burning Maiden by Greg Kishbaugh