Books by Brian Evenson
“Father of Lies touches on institutional abuse and personal evil—and the personal evils that are upheld by institutions. Samuel Delaney has an amazing introduction in the Coffee House Press edition of the book, in which he describes it as ‘patriarchal horror fiction’—so, this idea of horror growing out of gendered power, or the horror that occurs when men are given power simply because they’re men.” Read more...
Sue Rainsford, Novelist
Interviews where books by Brian Evenson were recommended
Literary Horror Books, recommended by Sue Rainsford
The most unnerving and disturbing novels are often those books that leave room for interpretation and uncertainty. Here, the acclaimed Irish novelist Sue Rainsford selects five frightening works of literary horror, by authors who are masters of the unsettling implication—because nothing is quite so scary as what you dream up to fill the voids.
