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Scott Brewster, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
This book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern…
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The first book to explore Herman Melville as a Gothic writer.
In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse, Herman Melville took the critics to task…
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien.
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Features a collection of essays on the popular Comedy Central show.
Features a collection of scholarly essays on the popular Comedy Central show.
This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is the first major reference book on monsters for the scholarly…
Edgar Allan Poe is a popular author, and students have often read his work by the time they reach the college or university classroom. His writings have inspired film, television…
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster ‘The Sixth Sense’, this book surveys the importance of…
This concise encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is the first major reference book on monsters for the scholarly…
The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film…
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Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Taken together, the collection recognizes and explores Shyamalan s star status and offers the concerted analysis that this…
An indispensable resource for students and researchers of paranormal myth and media, this horror anthology explores both popular and obscure pieces about the undead and unholy. Beginning with the author’s…
Monsters are scary, but academic writing doesn't have to be!
A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning-across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time-from foundational texts to the most recent contributionsZombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos…
A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning-across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time-from foundational texts to the most recent contributions.
From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to…
Identifies an overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. This title analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities.
Promotes reflective engagement with the world around us and provides a set of tools for thinking critically about how meaning is created, reinforced, and circulated. Each chapter includes 'Your Turn'…
Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its…
This Companion offers an accessible overview to the diversity of the American Gothic that will be of use to undergraduates, graduate students, and professional researchers. The introduction and sixteen chapters…
Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of…
This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Melies’ early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the…
The book successfully discusses Brown’s seven novels, including all other significant material, focusing on the subgenres of the Gothic, arguing that Brown is of significant value in the study of…
Return to Twin Peaks offers new critical considerations and approaches to the Twin Peaks series, as well as reflections on its significance and legacy.
The book examines Monty Python’s enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python’s comedy output from the perspective of its fifty years of cultural circulation.
H.P. Lovecraft
Reveals a universe that is vaster, darker, and stranger than anything previously imagined. The author’s cosmic horror reflects a peculiarly modern philosophical belief system in which human beings are regarded…
Features multi-eyed protoplasmic entities, flesh-eating ghouls, animate corpses, time-travelling body snatchers, and, yes, huge albino penguins. This collection includes three selections from the Cthulhu Mythos : the novella At the…
Isabella van Elferen,Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture reorients goth subcultural studies onto music: goth music must be recognized not only as simultaneously diverse and consistent, but also as the glue that…
The Age of Lovecraft
In this edited collection exploring Disney's dark side, attention to Disney's Gothic reveals the ways through which Disney productions construct and reinforce conceptions of normalcy and deviance in relation to…
Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction)
The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in film
Lucifer and cinema have been intertwined since…
