Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9781476674889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 236 str.

Michele Brittany; Nicholas Diak

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Acknowledgments
Foreword: The Truth of Horror: A Brief History of the Genre's Nonfiction Works … and Why We Need Them (Lisa Morton)
Introduction (Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak)
Section One: Horror Writers Who Forged New Ground
"The mist of death is on me": Ann Radcliffe's Unexplained Supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville (Elizabeth Bobbitt)
Jekyll and Hyde Everywhere: Inconsistency and Disparity
in the Real World (Erica McCrystal)
ScatterGories: Class Upheaval, Social Chaos and the Horrors
of Category Crisis in World War Z (J. Rocky Colavito)
Section Two: Spotlighting
Horror Writers Marjorie Bowen and the Third Fury (John C. Tibbetts)
"When the cage came up there was something crouched ­a-top of it": The Haunted Tales of L.T.C. Rolt (Danny Rhodes)
Richard Laymon's Rhetorical Style: Minimalism, Suspense and Negative Space (Gavin F. Hurley)
Four Quadrants of Success: The Metalinguistics of Author Protagonists in the Fiction of Stephen King (James Arthur Anderson)
Section Three: Exploring Literary Theory in Horror
"The symptoms of possession": Gender, Power and Trauma in Late 20th Century Horror Novels (Bridget E. Keown)
"Not a Bedtime Story": Investigating Textual Interactions Between the Horror Genre and Children's Picture Books (Emily Anctil)
Synchronic Horror and the Dreaming: A Theory of Aboriginal Australian Horror and Monstrosity (Naomi Simone Borwein)
"Gelatinous green immensity": Weird Fiction and the Grotesque Sublime (Johnny Murray)
Section Four: Disease, Viruses and Death in Horror
Night of the Living Dead, or Endgame: Jan Kott, Samuel Beckett and Zombies (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)
Koji Suzuki's Ring: A World Literary Perspective (Frazer Lee)
Mapping Digital ­Dis-Ease: Representations of Movement
and Technology in Jim Sonzero's Pulse and Stephen King's Cell
(Rahel Sixta Schmitz)
Afterword: Guardians of the Damned: Horror Scholarship and the Library (Becky Spratford)
About the Contributors
Index