Modern American literature has been profoundly shaped by a body of work that translates primal fears into the language of the everyday. Since the publication of his debut novel in 1974, this prolific author has moved beyond the constraints of genre fiction to examine the cultural and psychological anxieties of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. By grounding supernatural phenomena in the metic...

Modern American literature has been profoundly shaped by a body of work that translates primal fears into the language of the everyday. Since the publication of his debut novel in 1974, this prolific author has moved beyond the constraints of genre fiction to examine the cultural and psychological anxieties of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. By grounding supernatural phenomena in the metic...