SOURCE: "Death, Sleep & the Traveler: John Hawkes' Return to Terror," in Critique, Vol. XVII, No. 3, April, 1976, pp. 26-38.
In the following essay, Greiner offers a close analysis of terror in John Hawkes's Death, Sleep & the Traveler, noting that the "pure terror" of the novel represents Hawkes's movement away from the comic horror that characterized his earlier works.
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