Sentence:  Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers , who <WSD>deal</WSD> in extravagant horror , to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century , and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists , Henry James and James Joyce among them . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression