Horror· United States
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century
by Isaac AsimovAggregate Editorial Score30/100
#15,495of 99,626 books
Publishers Weekly
Published 1983English
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Few works of horror have earned the sustained critical attention that Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century (1983) by Isaac Asimov continues to receive. A masterwork of horror fiction, Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century by Isaac Asimov (1983) creates atmosphere and dread with extraordinary skill.
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Fiction designed to frighten, unsettle, or disturb the reader.
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Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century by Isaac Asimov sits within the tradition of horror that treats language as seriously as plot. Published in 1983 in United States, it engages with the human condition in ways that have earned it lasting critical attention.
Critics and institutions have consistently placed Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century among the notable works of its period. Our aggregate score of 30/100 is compiled from 1 editorial sources that range from Nobel and Booker committees to leading literary journals.
What distinguishes Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century is how it handles its central concerns — the human condition — without reducing them to neat conclusions. The book invites close reading and holds up well to it.
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century reflects Isaac Asimov's place in a wider literary tradition. The book's concerns resonate with United States's broader cultural preoccupations, even as they reach beyond any single national context.
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Publishers Weekly
notable · national
198330
Isaac Asimov is a celebrated author from United States known for influential works of science fiction.
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