Dark beginnings : fear and trembling in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown -- Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" : a predecessor to Lovecraft's "The outsider"? -- The realm of suffering : Ambrose Bierce and the phantoms of the American Civil War -- Suffering and evil in the short fiction of Arthur Machen -- The haunted wood : Algernon Blackwood's Canadian stories -- The sickness unto death in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Hound" -- What is "The unnamable" : H.P. Lovecraft and the problem of evil? -- The aboriginal in the works of H.P. Lovecraft -- From Salem to Eastwick : witchcraft in the American gothic -- The city of darkness : Fritz Leiber and the beginning of modern urban horror.
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.
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