Defending Kirk

American Spectator apparently ran an article critical of Russell Kirk's ghost stories (occasioned by the recently-issued Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales). We're a fan of Kirk's fiction, so were glad to see that the able John Robson has come to Kirk's defense. Link. Excerpt:

[Stephen] King himself in discussing the matter with [Stanley] Kubrick asked about Hell and Kubrick evidently replied, "I don't believe in Hell." Well, Russell Kirk does. And so, too late, do not a few of the characters in this book. Kirk's universe is, to be sure, a friendly one, the product of an omnipotent and omniscient God who is Love. But the horror at the heart of many of these stories is that we may not merely succumb to evil but actively embrace sin.