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020 $a0333683978 (hardcover, Macmillan)
020 $a0312212399 (pbk., St. Martin's Press)
020 $a0312212380(cloth, St. Martin's Press)
020 $a0333683986 (pbk., Macmillan)
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245 00 $aGothic horror :$ba reader's guide from Poe to
King and beyond /$cedited by Clive Bloom.
260 $aBasingstoke [England] :$bMacmillan ;$aNew York
:$bSt. Martin's Press,$c1998.
300 $axvii, 301 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [302])
505 0 $aChronology 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.
505 8 $aExtract 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.
650 0 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zUnited States.
650 0 $aHorror tales, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHorror tales$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aHorror tales, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aGothic revival (Literature)$xBibliography.
650 0 $aHorror tales$xBibliography.
700 1 $aBloom, Clive.
