{"product_id":"horror-literature-from-gothic-to-postmodern-9781476674889","title":"Horror Literature from Gothic to PostModern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries. A versatile literary genre, it offers commentary on societal issues, fresh insight into the everyday and moral tales disguised in haunting tropes and grotesque acts, with many stories worthy of critical appraisal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This collection of new essays takes in a range of topics, focusing on historic works such as Ann Radcliffe''s \u003ci\u003eGaston de Blondeville\u003c\/i\u003e (1826) and modern novels including Max Brooks'' \u003ci\u003eWorld War Z\u003c\/i\u003e. Other contributions examine weird fiction, Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Indigenous Australian monster mythology and horror in picture books for young children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eForeword: The Truth of Horror: A Brief History of the Genre's Nonfiction Works … and Why We Need Them (Lisa Morton)\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction (Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak)\u003cbr\u003eSection One: Horror Writers Who Forged New Ground\u003cbr\u003e\"The mist of death is on me\": Ann Radcliffe's Unexplained Supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville (Elizabeth Bobbitt)\u003cbr\u003eJekyll and Hyde Everywhere: Inconsistency and Disparity \u003cbr\u003ein the Real World (Erica McCrystal)\u003cbr\u003eScatterGories: Class Upheaval, Social Chaos and the Horrors \u003cbr\u003eof Category Crisis in World War Z (J. Rocky Colavito)\u003cbr\u003eSection Two: Spotlighting\u003cbr\u003eHorror Writers Marjorie Bowen and the Third Fury (John C. Tibbetts)\u003cbr\u003e\"When the cage came up there was something crouched ­a-top of it\": The Haunted Tales of L.T.C. Rolt (Danny Rhodes)\u003cbr\u003eRichard Laymon's Rhetorical Style: Minimalism, Suspense and Negative Space (Gavin F. Hurley)\u003cbr\u003eFour Quadrants of Success: The Metalinguistics of Author Protagonists in the Fiction of Stephen King (James Arthur Anderson)\u003cbr\u003eSection Three: Exploring Literary Theory in Horror\u003cbr\u003e\"The symptoms of possession\": Gender, Power and Trauma in Late 20th Century Horror Novels (Bridget E. Keown)\u003cbr\u003e\"Not a Bedtime Story\": Investigating Textual Interactions Between the Horror Genre and Children's Picture Books (Emily Anctil)\u003cbr\u003eSynchronic Horror and the Dreaming: A Theory of Aboriginal Australian Horror and Monstrosity (Naomi Simone Borwein)\u003cbr\u003e\"Gelatinous green immensity\": Weird Fiction and the Grotesque Sublime (Johnny Murray)\u003cbr\u003eSection Four: Disease, Viruses and Death in Horror\u003cbr\u003eNight of the Living Dead, or Endgame: Jan Kott, Samuel Beckett and Zombies (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)\u003cbr\u003eKoji Suzuki's Ring: A World Literary Perspective (Frazer Lee)\u003cbr\u003eMapping Digital ­Dis-Ease: Representations of Movement \u003cbr\u003eand Technology in Jim Sonzero's Pulse and Stephen King's Cell\u003cbr\u003e(Rahel Sixta Schmitz)\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Guardians of the Damned: Horror Scholarship and the Library (Becky Spratford)\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040445694295,"sku":"9781476674889","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476674889.jpg?v=1750946776","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/horror-literature-from-gothic-to-postmodern-9781476674889","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}