Horror of the 20th Century
Title | Horror of the 20th Century PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Weinberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
The most renowned writers, illustrators, publishers, actors, and filmmakers are drawn together in this exquisite portrayal of horror. Every media from comics, paperbacks, hardcovers, and movies is represented in full color.
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century
Title | Horror Fiction in the 20th Century PDF eBook |
Author | Jess Nevins |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1440862060 |
Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet critical guide to global horror fiction and authors. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century encompasses the world of 20th-century horror literature and explores it in a critical but balanced fashion. Readers will be exposed to the world of horror literature, a truly global phenomenon during the 20th century. Beginning with the modern genre's roots in the 19th century, the book proceeds to cover 20th-century horror literature in all of its manifestations, whether in comics, pulps, paperbacks, hardcover novels, or mainstream magazines, and from every country that produced it. The major horror authors of the century receive their due, but the works of many authors who are less well-known or who have been forgotten are also described and analyzed. In addition to providing critical assessments and judgments of individual authors and works, the book describes the evolution of the genre and the major movements within it. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century stands out from its competitors and will be of interest to its readers because of its informed critical analysis, its unprecedented coverage of female authors and writers of color, and its concise historical overview.
Best New Horror
Title | Best New Horror PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Hill |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 2009-02-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061843229 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .
Gothic
Title | Gothic PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Grunenberg |
Publisher | MIT Press (MA) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art, Gothic |
ISBN | 9780262571289 |
Taking its starting point and title from the Gothic novel, this book investigates the revival of a Gothic sensibility in contemporary art: in American and British fiction labelled the "New Gothic"; in film with its long tradition of horror; and in video, music, fashion, design, and underground culture. Gothic accompanies an exhibition at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, of 23 artists. Some employ a detached and reductive formal language to transmute images of excessive and gruesome violence. The old Gothic themes of the fantastic and pathological are infused with potency as they address concerns about the body, disease, voyeurism, and power.
The House on the Borderland
Title | The House on the Borderland PDF eBook |
Author | William Hope Hodgson |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486468798 |
"A classic of the first order," declared H. P. Lovecraft of this influential tale of a haunted house in the Irish countryside. First published in 1908, it bridges the era between ghost stories and modern thrillers. Its compelling journey through space and time combines the best aspects of horror, science fiction, and fantasy.
A Century of Horrors
Title | A Century of Horrors PDF eBook |
Author | Alain Besancon |
Publisher | ISI Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781933859187 |
The twentieth century bears the indelible imprint of both communism and Nazism. Today, it sometimes seems as if the former is all but forgotten, at least among Western elites, while our cultural memory of the latter is an inextinguishable fire. This inequality is surprising and calls out for explanation, a task the French political thinker Alain Besancon attempts here in a wise and elegant meditation. In examining the horror and destruction caused by both of these terrible ideologies, Besancon finds that recourse to theology is necessary if we are to achieve even feeble illumination. He also explains why, even with the full knowledge of the extent of communism's crimes, the uniqueness of the Shoah ought to be accepted without reservation.
Art of Imagination
Title | Art of Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Frank M. Robinson |
Publisher | Collectors Press, Inc. |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1888054727 |