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Terrence Rafferty is a film critic who wrote regularly for The New Yorker during the 1990s. His writing has also appeared in Slate , The Atlantic Monthly , The Village Voice , The Nation , and The New York Times . [1] For a number of years he served as critic at large for GQ . He has a particular penchant for horror fiction and has reviewed collections by Richard Matheson, Joe Hill, and the Spanish author Cristina Fernández Cubas. [2]
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