Associate Professor of English, Central Michigan University

"Weinstock's study offers a quick, readable introduction to Brown's major novels, his intellectual biography, and his influences, situated in reference to the most critically significant studies of Brown's work, past and present... Recommended."--A. T. Hale, University of Puget Sound "Choice " Throughout the study, Weinstock's prose is lucid and entertaining, and his research is wide-ranging and generally solid...Weinstock's breadth as a scholar of early American literature, of Gothic and pop culture (film particularly), and his writing style, which is lucid and not dependent on jargon, make this book widely accessible. - Michael Cody, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts