Analysis of Stories

Bradfield stories and novels are characterized by dark and supernatural elements of pulp fiction, horror, gothic tales, and fantasy literature. Their tales of psychological terror, located in Southern California modern, portraying the conflict between an external world of shallow American market, the kitsch and internal fantasies and dream worlds of solitary individuals, alienated that populate this world. Her fiction has been compared with the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe, existential fables of Franz Kafka, and tales of modern alienation of Raymond Carver. Bradfield short story collections include The Secret Life of Houses (1988), The Dream of the Wolves ...