This kind of horror fiction was closely allied to the evolving folklore of urbanisation and migration, rather than to ancient myths and traditions. Writers such as Bradbury, Bloch, Wellman and Derleth evoked the darkness of the American heartland and the human heart, rather than the darkness of distant planets and monstrous entities. "The simplicity of these tales reflects a fundamental change in the prevailing tone of Weird Tales fiction during the 1940s: a shift from the arcane to the local and familiar. In a two-part essay in Wormwood from 2005, the late Joel Lane argued for Bradbury's centrality in 20th-century American horror and weird fiction: His first published short story collection was a collection of horror stories, I think all originally published in Weird Tales.
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