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Informationen zum Autor Rocky Wood is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of many books about Stephen King. He is president of the Horror Writers Association and lives in Victoria, Australia. Klappentext That notorious evening at Villa Diodati when Lord Byron challenged his contemporaries to write a ghost story, his summons brought forth a mad doctor intent on reanimation and a vampire drunk with bloodlust. The night modern horror was born was notoriously dark and stormy, as were the lives of those who wrote the most fearsome--yet beloved--tales in literature, for those so gifted were also cursed. Horrors, a graphic novel, reveals in gruesome detail how Mary Wollstonecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of the genre were haunted by their monstrous creations. Zusammenfassung The night modern horror was born was notoriously dark and stormy, as were the lives of those who wrote the most fearsome – yet beloved – tales in literature. Horrors, a graphic novel, reveals in gruesome detail how Mary Wollstonecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of the genre were haunted by their monstrous creations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction Frankenstein The Vampyre Death of the Diodati Beowulf Shakespeare The Rise of the Gothic Novel Poe Dracula Conclusion Afterword
