Well, considered as the metaphor of coming out of the fascinated murk of infancy and then losing one's self by pieces into Alzheimer's and its cousins, "Algernon" can be seen as a horror. Disch's CAMP CONCENTRATION and other related work even moreso...
A lot of chestnuts here, and some off the wall choices, some not the best possible choices (certainly Saki did better on both counts of shock and sly humor, if not more famously), and some overblown blurbs...but this is certainly not the most ignorant list I've seen...
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How on earth is Flowers for Algernon a scary story. A tear-jerker yes but not scary.
Yeah, I thought that was a real reach.
Well, considered as the metaphor of coming out of the fascinated murk of infancy and then losing one's self by pieces into Alzheimer's and its cousins, "Algernon" can be seen as a horror. Disch's CAMP CONCENTRATION and other related work even moreso...
A lot of chestnuts here, and some off the wall choices, some not the best possible choices (certainly Saki did better on both counts of shock and sly humor, if not more famously), and some overblown blurbs...but this is certainly not the most ignorant list I've seen...
I thought it was a pretty good list, overall, too.
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