| Description |
xvii, 301 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Chronology of Significant Horror and Ghost Tales --Introduction: Death's Own Backyard / Clive Bloom --Extract from 'The Man of the Crowd' / Edgar Allan Poe -- Extract from 'The Imp of the Perverse' / Edgar Allan Poe -- 'The Philosophy of Composition' / Edgar Allan Poe -- Extract from Eureka / Edgar Allan Poe --Extract from Marginalia / Edgar Allan Poe -- Preface to The House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Extract from The Renaissance / Walter Pater --Extract from 'Nightmare-Touch' / Lafcadio Hearn --Extract from 'The Uncanny' / Sigmund Freud -- On Algernon Blackwood / Hilaire Belloc -- Extract from the Preface to The Collected Ghost Stories / M. R. James -- Extract from 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' / H. P. Lovecraft -- Extract from The Vampire in Literature / Montague Summers -- Author's Note from The Devil Rides Out / Dennis Wheatley -- On Horror Writers / Robert Bloch -- Symposium on H. P. Lovecraft / Los Angeles Science Fiction Society |
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Extract from an Interview in Playboy / Stephen King --Extract from 'An Evening at Billerica Public Library' /Stephen King -- On Stephen King / Whitley Strieber --On Horror and Subversion / Clive Barker -- Extract from Night Visitors / Julia Briggs -- Extract from The Literature of Terror / David Punter -- Extract from The Fantastic / Tzvetan Todorov -- Extract from Fantasy / Rosemary Jackson -- On The Vampire Tapestry /Anne Cranny Francis -- On The Haunting of Hill House /Judie Newman -- On Edgar Allan Poe / J. Gerald Kennedy -- On Victorian Horror / Manuel Aguirre -- On Angela Carter / Gina Wisker -- On Sex and Horror /John Nicholson -- On Horror and Censorship / Steve Holland -- On Horror and Religion / Robert F. Geary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Gothic revival (Literature) -- Bibliography.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
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Horror tales -- Bibliography.
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Horror tales -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Bloom, Clive.
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| LC no. |
97032057 |
| ISBN |
0312212380 (St.Martins Press) |
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0312212399 (paperback: St.Martins Press) |
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0333683978 (Macmillan Press) |
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0333683986 (paperback: Macmillan Press) |
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