Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction PDF
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Unutterable Horror Unutterable Horror A History of Supernatural Fiction S. T. Joshi Hippocampus Press ———————— New York Copyright © 2012, 2014 by S. T. Joshi. First Hippocampus Press edition, 2014. Originally published by PS Publishing Ltd. Published by Hippocampus Press P.O. Box 641, New York, NY 10156. http://www.hippocampuspress.com All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher. Cover design by Barbara Briggs Silbert. Cover illustration by Harry Clarke for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Hippocampus Press logo designed by Anastasia Damianakos. First Electronic Edition 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 978-1-61498-113-8 epub 978-1-61498-114-5 mobi To Steven J. Mariconda Contents Volume 1: From Gilgamesh to the End of the Nineteenth Century Preface I. Introduction II. Anticipations i. Supernaturalism in Greek Literature ii. Supernaturalism in Latin Literature iii. The Middle Ages and the Elizabethans III. The Gothics i. Types of Gothic Fiction ii. The Historical Supernatural iii. The Explained Supernatural iv. The Byronic Gothic v. The Christian Supernatural vi. The Theory of the Gothic vii. The Nature of Gothic Fiction IV. Interregnum i. Supernaturalism in the Romantic Poets ii. German Grotesque iii. The Weird Short Story iv. French Supernaturalism v. Anticipations of Poe: Washington Irving V. Edgar Allan Poe i. Poe and the Gothics ii. Theory and Practice iii. Death as Threshold v. Fantasy and Science vi. The Longer Tales vii. Conclusion VI. Mid-Victorian Horrors i. Christian Supernaturalism ii. High and Low iii. Occasional Supernaturalism iv. The Americans v. French and German Supernaturalism vi. Irish Gothic: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu VII. The Deluge: British and European Branch i. Ghosts and More Ghosts ii. Horrors in the Mainstream iii. Between the Genres iv. French Horror v. Slumming with Stoker and Others VIII. The Deluge: American Branch i. The East Coast School ii. The West Coast School iii. Eccentrics Epilogue Bibliographical Essay Bibliography A. Primary Texts B. Secondary Literature
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