Add a gurgling moan with the sound of dragging feet and a smell of decay and what do you get? Better not find out. The zombie has roamed with dead-eyed menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and superstition to global status today, the star of films such as28 Days Later, World War Z, and the outrageously successful comic book, TV series, and video game The Walking Dead. In this brain-gripping history, Roger Luckhurst traces the permutations of thezombie through our culture and imaginations, examining the undead s ability to remain defiantly alive. Luckhurst...
Add a gurgling moan with the sound of dragging feet and a smell of decay and what do you get? Better not find out. The zombie has roamed with dead-eye...
Over the centuries the Gothic has been revived and rewritten to reflect the anxieties of each era. It encompasses the weird, the feared and the uncanny; haunted places and people; and monsters that act as mirrors to ourselves and society. In this lavishly illustrated volume Roger Luckhurst explores how the Gothic began in the margins of history and seeped into mainstream global culture today.
The visceral visual history begins with the Gothic as an aesthetic and architectural practice - the revival of medieval arches across northern Europe - and the emergence of Gothic...
Over the centuries the Gothic has been revived and rewritten to reflect the anxieties of each era. It encompasses the weird, the feared and the u...
The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth year Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its fifteenth volume.
The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth year Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short S...
