Word: jermyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lies in the tension between our scientific age's rationalism and our primordial sense of individual powerlessness-of being enmeshed in something vast, inexplicable and appallingly evil. For this reason, he eschewed the stock devices of werewolves and vampires for a more intimate horror. In stories like Arthur Jermyn and Rats in the Walls, he exploited the rich theme of contaminated blood as it percolates implacably through successive generations. In The Lurking Fear, an entire upstate New York clan degenerates into thunder-crazed, shocking creatures with the hideous habits of man-eating moles...