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Russell Kirk

(1918 - 1994)

Russell Kirk is widely regarded as one of the principal architects of the postwar conservative intellectual movement. A columnist, essayist, novelist, historian, and critic, Kirk's best-known work is The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot. He edited The Portable Conservative Reader (1982), and also wrote several fantasy novels and story collections.

Awards: WFA (1977) see all

Novels

   Old House of Fear (1961)
   A Creature of the Twilight (1966)
   Lord of the Hollow Dark (1979)

Collections

   The Surly Sullen Bell (1962)
   The Princess of All Lands (1979)
   Watchers at the Strait Gate (1984)
   Off the Sand Road (2002)
   What Shadows We Pursue (2003)

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Books containing stories by Russell Kirk

The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume Two (2010)
(Century's Best Horror Fiction, book 2)
edited by
John Pelan

The Dark Descent (1997)
(Dark Descent)
edited by
David G Hartwell

The Best of Whispers (1994)
(Whispers)
edited by
Stuart David Schiff

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Awards

1977 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding

Award nominations

1985 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Watchers at the Strait Gate

Russell Kirk recommends

Cold Hand in Mine (1975)
Robert Aickman
"Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever... His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments."

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