Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: Cormac McCarthy


  • Narrative Tension
    Day 5 of the Veins Blog Tour

    In his well-known and often quoted poem “Musée des Beaux Arts,” W. H. Auden writes about the place of suffering in the world, “how it takes place / While someone else is eating or opening a window or just / walking dully along.” Writers do well to keep this relationship in mind, not only when…

  • Beyond the Walls of Horror

    Horror isn’t a genre. It’s an ingredient. A seasoning. Such things have been pointed out before, most notably by Douglas Winter in Revelations (1997), but a quick look at this year’s Bram Stoker Award™ Preliminary Ballot shows that it bears repeating. This year the short-fiction jury has selected three strong works from mainstream publications, Ramona…