Genre Trouble: The Boston Review considers the densely-written fiction of John Crowley (The Deep, Beasts, Engine Summer, Little Big, Aegypt, Love and Sleep, Daemonomania), off the critical radarscreens because he “(tries) to create literature with the tools of the genre writer”. He runs the risk “of intimidating readers and baffling
reviewers, of trying the patience of his publisher, of falling
off the literary map altogether.” He’s largely out of print and what there is is buried in the sci-fi/fantasy section of your bookstore.