Gothic horror: a guide for students and readers

Horror fiction is as popular now as it was when Edgar Allan Poe reinvented the gothic genre in the 1840s, and in the late twentieth century Stephen King is the most read American author ever. This anthology presents classic and contemporary accounts of modern gothic horror writing from Edgar Allan P...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2007
Edition:2. ed.
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:Horror fiction is as popular now as it was when Edgar Allan Poe reinvented the gothic genre in the 1840s, and in the late twentieth century Stephen King is the most read American author ever. This anthology presents classic and contemporary accounts of modern gothic horror writing from Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Stephen King, Clive Barker and many other authors, as well as essays from current literary scholars, providing an essential guide to the genre and the variety of approaches possible when discussing the literature of terror.
Physical Description:XXII, 311 S.
ISBN:0230001785
9780230001787
0230001777
9780230001770

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