In a Lonely Place Quotes

“Thus the earliest tale, “In the Pines,” a ghost story which perhaps isn’t only that, acknowledges its echo of “The Beckoning Fair One,” though the reader may be more struck by the ways in which it prefigures The Shining, published three years later. “In the Pines” is the first statement of one of Wagner’s recurring themes, the swallowing up of characters and their psychological conflicts by a vividly imagined, almost hallucinatory landscape. If “In the Pines” incorporates Wagner’s tributes to several aspects of British supernatural fiction, not least a piny whiff of Algernon Blackwood,”
― Karl Edward Wagner, In a Lonely Place