James Goho

Journeys into Darkness

Critical Essays on Gothic Horror

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Produktbeschreibung

This single author collection of essays tackles the usual subjects in horror literature-particularly Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. P. Lovecraft and Ramsey Campbell-but also examines some of the less well-known names of the genre, including Charles Brockden Brown and Algernon Blackwood.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Supernatural Literature
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9781442231450
• ISBN-10: 1442231459
• Artikelnr.: 39684875

Autorenporträt

James Goho has numerous publications in short fiction, social science studies, and gothic literature. He lives in Winnipeg, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Dark Beginnings: Fear and Trembling
in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown Chapter 2: Poe's "The Fall of the
House of Usher": A Predecessor to Lovecraft's "The Outsider"? Chapter 3:
The Realm of Suffering: Ambrose Bierce and the Phantoms of the American
Civil War Chapter 4: Suffering and Evil in the Short Fiction of Arthur
Machen Chapter 5: The Haunted Wood: Algernon Blackwood's Canadian Stories
Chapter 6: The Sickness unto Death in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Hound" Chapter
7: The Aboriginal in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft Chapter 8: What is "the
Unnamable"? H. P. Lovecraft and the Problem of Evil Chapter 9: From Salem
to Eastwick: Witchcraft in the American Gothic Chapter 10: The City of
Darkness: Fritz Leiber and the Beginning of Modern Urban Horror Selected
Bibliography Filmography About the Author