I read it in one big gulp, and I think it is extraordinary. After his first story with genre content, "Carnival" for Gallery in August 1980 – assembled with much of his short fiction of fantastic interest in Matinee at the Flame (coll 2006) – most of his later work of interest is Horror, though The Lyssa Syndrome ( 1990) introduces a focusing sf element in its description of a closed venue – the isolated town typical of horror novels of recent decades – decimated by a mutant strain of rabies. Buy a cheap copy of The Lyssa Syndrome book by Christopher Fahy. (1937- ) US author whose first works – like The Compost Heap ( 1970) – convey in mundane contexts a quiet enragedness that can seem scattershot.
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