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 The origins of the 'mad scientist' character in fiction, with introduction and notes, given across a series of stories including work by Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mary Shelley. 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