Jonathan Carroll

Steffen Hantke (Sogang University)
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Jonathan Samuel Carroll's twelve novels, two long novellas, and assorted short stories – most of them collected in

The Panic Hand

(German transl. 1989, US edition 1996) – straddle the fence between genre and mainstream writing; just which genre exactly is hard to tell. The fact that Carroll was nominated nine times for the World Fantasy Award and four times for the British Fantasy Award, that his short story “Friend's Best Man” (1988) and his collection

The Panic Hand

(1995) each won a Bram Stoker Award, and that his novel

Outside the Dog Museum

(1991) won a British Fantasy Award, place Carroll in the neighborhood of the modern fantastic, perhaps of magical realism or the contemporary Gothic. Genre audiences have embraced him enthusiastically, but reviews of his novels in the…

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Citation: Hantke, Steffen. "Jonathan Carroll". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 April 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5206, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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