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Waugh, a leading critic and scholar of weird, fantasy, and science fiction, has in the past decade quietly demonstrated his skill as a weird fictionist of luminous prose and powerful supernatural concepts. This first collection of his tales exhibits the wide range of his talents, containing such gems as The Hot Tub Horror, telling of the bizarreries a man finds in a jacuzzi; Yet Here's a Spot, where anomalous and ever-moving spots appear on a man's body; Mr. Hoffman's Cat, about a mysterious feline and its even more mysterious owner; Playing with Fire, a story of psychological aberration about a pyromaniac; and the title story, a riveting tale of sea horror. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWaugh is particularly adept at evoking the terror inherent in towns weighted down by centuries of tradition (as in The Churches on the Hill, evoking the strangeness of the upstate New York town of New Paltz, where Waugh long resided), and he is just as skilled at fusing horror and pathos, as in the plangent narratives The Wind of His Passing and The Violinist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn all the twenty-five stories in this volume, we find a sensitivity to fine shades of human emotion, a deftness in introducing the supernatural into a mundane setting, and a supple, richly textured prose that bespeak a literary craftsman of the highest order. 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Waugh has been a scintillating critic of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. A leading analyst of H. P. Lovecraft, Waugh now brings his critical talents to the assessment of an array of fantasy and science fiction writers, past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a trilogy of essays, Waugh studies David Lindsay's pioneering novel \u003cem\u003eA Voyage to Arcturus\u003c\/em\u003e (1920), probing its relations to the work of Goethe and its distinctive vocabulary. Two essays discuss the largely ignored work of Olaf Stapledon, while another pair of essays examine key novels by Arthur C. 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