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020    $a 1442231459 (cloth : alk. paper)
020    $a 9781442231450 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 1  $a Goho, James, $d 1946- $e author.
245 10 $a Journeys into darkness : $b critical essays on gothic horror / $c James Goho.
264  1 $a Lanham, Maryland : $b Rowman & Littlefield, $c [2014]
300    $a viii, 223 pages ; $c 24 cm.
490 1  $a Studies in supernatural literature
504    $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
520    $a 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.
505 0  $a 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.
650  0 $a Horror tales, American $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Horror tales, English $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English $x History and criticism.
830  0 $a Studies in supernatural literature.
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