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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
James Goho has numerous publications in short fiction, social science studies, and gothic literature. He lives in Winnipeg, Canada.
Summary
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.
