Horror
| Book | Horror |
| Editor | Michael Stuprich |
| Publisher Series | The Greenhaven Press Companion to Literary Movements and Genres |
| Editorial Director | Bonnie Szumski |
| Managing Editor | Scott Barbour |
| Series Editor | David M. Haugen |
| Publisher | Greenhaven Press, Inc. |
| Contributing Writer | H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Noël Carroll, Isabel Cristina Pinedo, Anne Williams, Linda Bayer-Berenbaum, Bernard McElroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Clark Griffith, Wendy Lesser, Ellen Moers, James B. Twitchell, Bram Dijkstra, Mark Jancovich, Susan J. Wolfson, Barry V. Qualls, Robert Bloch, Douglas E. Winter, Lynda Haas, Robert Haas, S. T. Joshi |
| About/Subject | Horror Literature, Gothic Literature, H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Clive Barker |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | San Diego, CA |
| Copyright | 2001 |
| Pages / Font | 208 pages |
| ISBN 10 | 0-7377-0667-8 |
| Barcode (EAN) | 9780737706673 |
| EAN 5 | 90000 |
| Chapters | Foreword Introduction: The Art of Horror Evolution of the Horror Story CHAPTER 1: UNDERSTANDING HORROR AND ITS ATTRACTIONS 1. The Appeal of the Unknown, by H. P. Lovecraft [Excerpted from "Supernatural Horror in Literature"] 2. Some Defining Elements of Horror, Stephen King [Excerpted from "Danse Macabre"] 3. The Paradox of Horror, by Noël Carroll [Excerpted from "The Philosophy of Horror"] 4. Five Characteristics of Postmodern Horror, by Isabel Cristina Pinedo [Excerpted from "Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing"] CHAPTER 2: THE GOTHIC AND THE GROTESQUE The Gothic Novel, 1764-Present, by Anne Williams [Excerpted from "Edifying Narratives: The Gothic Novel, 1764–1997"] Elements of the Gothic, by Linda Bayer-Berenbaum [Excerpted from "The Gothic Imagination: Expansion in Gothic Literature and Art"] The Grotesque in Literature, by Bernard McElroy [Excerpted from "Fiction of the Modern Grotesque"] The Gothic Tradition in American Literature, by Joyce Carol Oates [Excerpted from "Introduction" (to American Gothic Tales)] Poe and the Gothic, by Clark Griffith [Excerpted from an essay with the same name] CHAPTER 3: THREE CLASSIC HORROR NOVELS 1. Biographical Contexts for Frankenstein, by Wendy Lesser [Excerpted from "Introduction" (to Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus)] 2. Death and Birth in Frankenstein, by Ellen Moers [Excerpted from "Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother"] 3. Analyzing Dracula's Enduring Popularity, by James B. Twitchell [Excerpted from "The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature"] 4. Dracula's Antifeminism, by Bram Dijkstra [Excerpted from "Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture"] 5. Identity and Repression in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Mark Jancovich [Excerpted from "Horror"] 6. Tensions and Anxieties in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Susan J. Wolfson and Barry V. Qualls [Excerpted from "Introduction" (to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)] CHAPTER 4: MODERN MASTERS OF HORROR 1. H. P. Lovecraft's Life and Work, by Robert Bloch [Excerpted from "Introduction" (to Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H.P. Lovecraft)] 2. Stephen King's "Art of Darkness", by Douglas E. Winter [Excerpted from "Stephen King: The Art of Darkness"] 3. The Novels of Anne Rice, by Lynda Haas and Robert Haas [Excerpted from "Living Without Boundaries: The Novels of Anne Rice"] 4. Sex, Death, and Violence in the Early Works of Clive Barker, by S. T. Joshi [Excerpted from "Clive Barker: Sex, Death, and Fantasy"] Chronology For Further Research Index |
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