Reprinted for the first time in years, 'To Walk the Night' and 'The Edge of Running Water' blend SF and horror in a manner wholly unheard of when they were originally published in the 1930s….Sloane’s eerie, exquisitely descriptive prose is influenced by Gothic literature as well as contemporary scientific theory….These all-but-forgotten texts make excellent reading for any fan of classic SF or eldritch horror. Edge is one of the great American horror novels, mysteriously overlooked and still extremely effective in its blend of witty, realist dialogue and overwhelming cosmic horror.Sloane’s measured prose and gift for describing nature and the supernatural make The Edge of Running Water a work of realism in conflict with awe….I can’t overrate Sloane’s work in the pantheon of American horror.Īs the editor of two SF anthologies and director of Rutgers University Press, Sloane would easily have made a name for himself in the speculative fiction world even if he had not written these two tremendous novels. The Sloane book is distinguished not only by the admiring introduction from Stephen King, but by the second novel in the book, The Edge of Running Water. Poised between the terrors of the old world and the quantum scientific leaps of the new, both novels are modern Promethean legends.Sloane pulls out all the stops to spin a diverting yarn, incorporating aspects of mystery, fantasy, science fiction, noir and horror, and yet his clear-eyed style is more immediate and far less mannered than the purple prose of that high priest of cosmic horror, H.P. Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review What terrifies us, finally, in both these books is the vastness of our ignorance of the universe. “To Walk the Night' and ‘'The Edge of Running Water' are elegant and serenely paced, and they’re light on both the overt shocks of a King story and the overheated proses of a weird tale by Poe or Lovecraft Sloane’s manner is patient, gentlemanly.

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