Sleeping with the Lights on: The Unsettling Story of Horror

ISBN-13: 9780198826484 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Darryl Jones

Opis

Fear is one of the most primal emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? Delving into the darkest corners of horror literature, films, and plays, Darryl Jones explores its monsters and its psychological chills, discussing why horror stories disturb us, and how they reflect society's taboos.

Recenzje

Jones' ability to both define and dispel problematic critical definitions, frameworks, and terminology that have categorised and arguably confined Horror as a form... deftly and unpretentiously in so few words, and in a tone suitable for seasoned scholars and casual consumers alike, is a unique and commendable skill... One cannot rightly discuss the book's content without acknowledging it as a homagepaying Horror artefact in itself. A small, black treasure for a true Horror fan: the pages are edged in black recalling great classical tomes and its front cover has a lightbulb cut-out to reveal the artwork on the inner pages.

O autorze

Darryl Jones is Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches nineteenth-century literature and popular fiction. His books include Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (2002), the Oxford World's Classics editions of M. R. James's Collected Ghost Stories (2011), and Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (2014). He has also written numerous articles on nineteenth-century fiction and supernatural literature.