Promethean Horrors - Classic Stories of Mad Science

Informationen zum Autor Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. His books include Spanish Gothic , Horror: A Literary History , Horror Film and Affect , Digital Horror , and Body Gothic . Xavier is chief editor of the University of Wales Press's Horror Studies series. Klappentext It's alive! Spine-tingling tales of scientists gone mad. From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, and later weirdists such as H.P. Lovecraft came one of the most complex of villains--the mad scientist. Promethean Horrors presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created, as each cautionary tale explores the consequences of pushing nature too far. These savants take many forms: there are malcontents who strive to create poisonous humans; technologists obsessed with genetic splicing; mesmerists interested in the way consciousness operates after death, and inventors who believe in a hidden reality. From essential Gothic stories by Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Edgar Allan Poe to later forays into the weird and psychedelic by E. Nesbit, H. P. Lovecraft and George Langelaan, the classic figure of the mad scientist is reanimated in these pages along with every untethered ambition and its calamitous consequences. Zusammenfassung From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Mary Shelley and H.P. Lovecraft came one of the most complex of villains - the mad scientist. Promethean Horrors presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created! as each cautionary tale explores the consequences of pushing nature too far.

Product details

• Authors: Xavier Aldana Reyes
• Assisted by: Xavier Aldana Reyes (Editor), Reyes Xavier Aldana (Editor)
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.09.2019
• EAN: 9780712352840
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5284-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 190 mm x 20 mm
• Series: British Library Tales of the Weird; Tales of the Weird
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural, FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION / Fantasy / Paranormal, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic horror and ghost stories