Gothic horror
Gothic horror: a reader's guide from Poe to King and beyond
edited by Clive Bloom
Publisher: Basingstoke [England] : Macmillan ; 1998.
ISBN: 0333683986
DDC: 813.087209
Edition: (pbk., Macmillan)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [302])
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.
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.
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