The Delights of Terror
Author : Terry Heller
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
The Book of (More) Delights
Author : Ross Gay
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1643755471
Book Description
From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
Ten Years of Terror
Author : Harvey Fenton
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Book Description
Documenting the heyday of independent horror film,production in Britain, 'ten Years of Terror' is an,encyclopaedic record of this era featuring a,stunning selection of film stills and truly great,promotional artwork. Films covered include: 'the,Wicker Man', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'the Devils','Countess Dracula', 'Alien', 'the Omen', 'Killer's,Moon', 'the Rocky Horror Picture Show', 'tales,From the Crypt', 'Frankenstein and the Monster,from Hell' and more! With 48 full-colour pages.,'Gruesomely beautiful and frighteningly good!' -,Hotdog (Book of the Month)
The Lurkers in the Abyss and Other Tales of Terror
Author : David a. Riley
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780953903290
Book Description
David A. Riley began writing horror stories while still at school and had his first professional sale to Pan Books in 1969, which was The Lurkers in the Abyss, published in The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories. This story was chosen for inclusion in The Century's Best Horror Fiction in 2012. Over the years he has had numerous stories published in Britain and the United States plus translations into German, Spanish, Italian and Russian. His fiction has appeared in World of Horror, Fear, Whispers, Fantasy Tales, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Dark Discoveries and Lovecraft e-Zine. His first collection, His Own Mad Demons was published by Hazardous Press in 2012. The Return, a Lovecraftian horror novel was published by Blood Bound Books in 2013. This second collection brings together under one cover seventeen of the author's best blood-curdling stories.
Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere
Author : Poe Ballantine
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 098347754X
Book Description
Fans of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" and John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" will embrace Poe Ballantine's "Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere." Poe Ballantine's "Free Rent at the Totalitarian Hotel" included in Best American Essays 2013, and for well over twenty years, Poe Ballantine traveled America, taking odd jobs, living in small rooms, trying to make a living as a writer. At age 46, he finally settled with his Mexican immigrant wife in Chadron, Nebraska, where they had a son who was red-flagged as autistic. Poe published four books about his experiences as a wanderer and his observations of America. But one day in 2006, his neighbor, Steven Haataja, a math professor from the local state college disappeared. Ninety five days later, the professor was found bound to a tree, burned to death in the hills behind the campus where he had taught. No one, law enforcement included, understood the circumstances. Poe had never contemplated writing mystery or true crime, but since he knew all the players, the suspects, the sheriff, the police involved, he and his kindergarten son set out to find out what might have happened.
The Shape of Fear
Author : Susan Jennifer Navarette
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813147948
Book Description
During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it. In response, the 1890s saw the publication of a series of remarkable literary works that had their genesis in the intense scientific and aesthetic activity of those preceding decades—texts that emphasized themes of degeneration and were themselves stylistically decompositive, with language both a surrogate for physical deformity and a source of anxiety. Susan J. Navarette examines the ways in which scientific and cultural concerns of late nineteenth-century England are coded in the horror literature of the period. By contextualizing the structural, stylistic, and thematic systems developed by writers seeking to reenact textually the entropic forces they perceived in the natural world, Navarette reconstructs the late Victorian mentalité. She analyzes aesthetic responses to trends in contemporary science and explores horror writers' use of scientific methodologies to support their perception that a long-awaited period of cultural decline had begun. In her analysis of the classics Turn of the Screw and Heart of Darkness, Navarette shows how James and Conrad made artistic use of earlier "scientific" readings of the body. She also considers works by lesser-known authors Walter de la Mare, Vernon Lee, and Arthur Machen, who produced fin de siècle stories that took the form of "hybrid literary monstrosities." To underscore the fascination with bodily decay and deformation that these writers explored, The Shape of Fear is enhanced with prints and line drawings by Victor Hugo, James Ensor, and other artists of the day. This elegantly written book formulates a new canon of late Victorian fiction that will intrigue scholars of literature and cultural history.
Once Upon a Time, There Was You
Author : Elizabeth Berg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1588368939
Book Description
BONUS: This edition contains a Once Upon a Time, There Was You discussion guide. Even on their wedding day, John and Irene sensed that they were about to make a mistake. Years later, divorced, dating other people, and living in different parts of the country, they seem to have nothing in common—nothing except the most important person in each of their lives: Sadie, their spirited eighteen-year-old daughter. Feeling smothered by Irene and distanced from John, Sadie is growing more and more attached to her new boyfriend, Ron. When tragedy strikes, Irene and John come together to support the daughter they love so dearly. What takes longer is to remember how they really feel about each other. Elizabeth Berg’s immense talent shines in this unforgettable novel about the power of love, the unshakeable bonds of family, and the beauty of second chances.
The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic
Author : Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409400561
Book Description
Challenging the widely held assumption that gothic literature is mainly about fear, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment. Analyzing canonical works by Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Gilman, and James, Monnet persuasively argues that these authors' concerns about slavery, gender, and sexuality tacitly inform works that deal explicitly with less controversial subjects.
Horror Literature through History [2 volumes]
Author : Matt Cardin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1065 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1440842027
Book Description
This two-volume set offers comprehensive coverage of horror literature that spans its deep history, dominant themes, significant works, and major authors, such as Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Anne Rice, as well as lesser-known horror writers. Many of today's horror story fans—who appreciate horror through movies, television, video games, graphic novels, and other forms—probably don't realize that horror literature is not only one of the most popular types of literature but one of the oldest. People have always been mesmerized by stories that speak to their deepest fears. Horror Literature through History shows 21st-century horror fans the literary sources of their favorite entertainment and the rich intrinsic value of horror literature in its own right. Through profiles of major authors, critical analyses of important works, and overview essays focused on horror during particular periods as well as on related issues such as religion, apocalypticism, social criticism, and gender, readers will discover the fascinating early roots and evolution of horror writings as well as the reciprocal influence of horror literature and horror cinema. This unique two-volume reference set provides wide coverage that is current and compelling to modern readers—who are of course also eager consumers of entertainment. In the first section, overview essays on horror during different historical periods situate works of horror literature within the social, cultural, historical, and intellectual currents of their respective eras, creating a seamless narrative of the genre's evolution from ancient times to the present. The second section demonstrates how otherwise unrelated works of horror have influenced each other, how horror subgenres have evolved, and how a broad range of topics within horror—such as ghosts, vampires, religion, and gender roles—have been handled across time. The set also provides alphabetically arranged reference entries on authors, works, and specialized topics that enable readers to zero in on information and concepts presented in the other sections.
Heebie Jeebies
Author : Chanel Harry
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2016-10-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781533119292
Book Description
In a macabre and terrifying ten story collection-Chanel Harry will take readers down the rabbit hole of horror. A bullied high school girl with a disturbing power turns the tables on her prejudiced classmates, a struggling rapper signs a record deal with Satan himself, a landlord and his wife are hiding something worse than rats in their walls, a young novice criminal becomes incarcerated in a maximum security prison of scientific horrors, a car crash involving two women on a snowy night, unleashes a vengeful ghost. And that's just to name a few of these dreadful delights. Be prepared to experience the old "Heebie Jeebies" feeling when reading this depraved collection. Chanel Harry is an elusive horror writer that resides in the bowels of New York City. Her love of horror keep is the reason that she writes such twisted tales. Heebie Jeebies: Tales of Terror is her second horror offering. Her debut horror novel Skin Witch: Tales of Soucouyants is available on Amazon as well. You can check her out on her website: http: //authorchanelharry.wixsite.com/authorchanelharry
