by Matt Cardin
death of, 534
“Lazarus,” 534–535
significance of, 534
Anger, Kenneth, 761
animal horror, 60
the “Antichrist,” 53
antinatalism, 555
Antonio’s Revenge (Marston), 16–17
apocalyptic horror, 51–56
After London (Jefferies), 55
alien invasion, 55
the “Antichrist,” 53
apocalyptic entertainment, 53
Armageddon, 55
conclusion concerning, 56
“The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” (Poe), 55
Cumaean Sibyl, 53
definition of, 51
the Doomsday play, 52–53
eschatological writing, 51–52
eschatology, 51, 55
illuminated medieval apocalypse manuscripts, 52
The Last Man (Shelley), 53–55
millenarianism, 53
mystery plays, 52
pandemic, 55
Paradise Lost (Milton), 53
secular apocalypse fiction, 53
secular apocalypses, 55
Shelley, Mary, 53
Trinity Apocalypse, 52
types of apocalypse in horror fiction, 54
The War of the Worlds (Wells), 55
zombie apocalypse, 55
Appleyard, J. A., 169
Argonautica (Apollonius Rhodius), 5–6
Arisman, Marshall, 520
Aristotle, xxxii
Arkham House, 33, 88, 153, 189–191
classic ghost story writers of, 190
Collected Poems (Lovecraft), 191
Dark of the Moon, 190
Derleth, August, 189, 190, 191
establishment of, 190
Fedogan and Bremer, 191
fiction of Clark Ashton Smith, 191
“firsts” in horror history, 189t
founders of, 189
Keller, David H., 190
Lovecraft, H. P., 189
major discoveries, 191
Marginalia (Lovecraft), 190
The Outsider and Others (Derleth and Wandrei), 189, 190
poetry, 190, 191
post-Turner Arkham House, 191
purpose of, 573
Selected Letters (Lovecraft), 190
Skullface and Others (Howard), 190
Slan (Vogt), 190
Someone in the Dark, 190
Turner, James, 191
Wandrei, Donald, 189
Weird Tales writers and, 190
Arkham House Books, 307
Armageddon, 55
Asquith, Cynthia, 710
Atkins, Peter, 197
At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft), 192–194
Cthulhu Mythos and, 193
extraliterary adaptations, 193
format of, 192
influence of, 193
narrative form of, 192–193
publication history of, 192
versions of, 192
Atwood, Margaret, 219
Auerbach, Dathan
Penpal, 114
Augustine (Saint), 143
De Civitate Dei or The City of God, 465–466
Austen, Jane
Northanger Abbey (Austen), 639–641
Austin, William
“Peter Rugg, the Missing Man,” 86
The Avon Fantasy Reader, 89
Bacon, Jon Lance, 652
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Rabelais and His World, 405
Balderston, John, 627
Ballard, J. G. (1930–2009), 195–196
Concrete Island (1973), 195
controversy over, 195
Crash (1973), 195
culminating tetralogy of, 195
early work of, 195
High-Rise (1975), 195
influences on, 195
movement toward horror, 195
science fiction and, 195
trilogy of disaster novels, 195
Balzac, Honoré de, 605
Bandel, Joe E., 186
Banks, Iain, 235
Bardin, John Franklin, 270
Barker, Clive (1952–), 196–201
artwork of, 200
birthplace, 196
The Books of Abarat, 200
Books of Blood, 40, 119–120, 197–198, 232–233
Cabal, 334
Coldheart Canyon, 200
The Damnation Game, 198, 310–311, 335
“dark fantastique” of, 199
demonic queerness, 334
directorial debut, 199
Dog Company, 196
films of, 198
Galilee, 200
The Hellbound Heart, 196, 198, 334
Hell Priest “Pinhead,” 196, 200
Hellraiser film(s), 196, 197, 198
King, Stephen, on, 198
Lord of Illusions film, 199
Mister B. Gone, 200
Nightbreed film, 199
overview of, 196
religion, horror, and the supernatural, 147
on the roots of horror literature, 143
Sacrament, 200
The Scarlet Gospels, 42, 200
selective Clive Barker chronology: books and films, 197t
Seraphim Films, 199
sexually transgressive work, 167
splatterpunk movement, 40
themes and motifs of, 196
The Thief of Always, 200
Weaveworld, 199, 510
writing style of, 199
young readership and, 200
Barlow, R. H. (1918–1951), 201–202
career in anthropology, 202
death of, 202
“A Dim-Remembered Story,” 202
early writing of, 201–202
Lovecraft circle and, 201
“The Night Ocean,” 202
quality of his writing, 201
reoccurring characters, 202
Barnes, Steven, 349
Barron, Laird, 634
Barron, Laird (1970–), 202–206
Alaskan themes, 203
awards of church, 203
birthplace of, 202
The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron, 45, 203
on Cormac McCarthy, 206
cosmicism and, 202–203
The Croning, 45
Dark Gods, 206
early life of, 202
full name of, 202
horror genre and the Lovecraft tradition, 167
influence of, 203
influences on, 203
an interview with, 204–206
on Ligotti, 206
Ligotti, comparison with, 203
on Lovecraft, 205
Lovecraft, comparison with, 202–203
“More Dark,” 203
on music, 204
Pacific Northwest Mythos, 203
pulp modes used by, 203
on the reinvigoration of horror fiction and film, 205
on religious and otherworldly matters, 44–45
on setting, 205
Swift to Chase, 203
on voice, 204
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre (1821–1867), 207–208
“Chacun sa chimère” (To Each His Chimera), 208
Decadent movement and, 207
influence of, 207
innovations of, 207
Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil ), 207
Les Paradis artificiels, opium et haschisch (Artifi cial Paradise, Opium and Hashish), 207
Le Spleen de Paris ( Paris Spleen ),, 207–208
“Mademoiselle Bistouri,” 208
on Melmoth the Wanderer, 605
moral indecency, 207
significance of, 207
Smith, Clark Ashton, on, 207
“The Beast with Five Fingers (Harvey),” 208–210
in anthologies, 209
cinematic adaptation of, 209–210
excerpt from, 208
first publication of, 208
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br /> Harvey, W. F., 208
prologue of, 209
reprinting of, 209
revision of, 209
severed/animated hand subgenre, 209
volume one of, 208–209
Beattie, James, 73
Beaumont, Charles (1929–1967), 210–212
birth name, 210
“Black Country,” 211
“The Dark Music,” 37
date and place of birth, 210
death of, 211
friends of, 210
“The Howling Man,” 211
“The Hunger,” 37
imaginative whimsy, 211
influence of, 211
marriage of, 210
Matheson, Richard, and, 592
men’s magazine market, 36
“Miss Gentibelle,” 37, 210
“My Grandmother’s Japonicas,” 211
output of, 211
parents of, 210
Serling’s The Twilight Zone (1959–1964), 37
social conformity and horror, 37
Southern California Writing School, 210
themes of, 211
Twilight Zone teleplays, 210
writing style of, 211
The Beetle (1897), 75
Bellum Civile or Pharsalia (Lucan), 7
Beloved, 212–213
awards, 212
date published, 212
Morrison, Toni, 212
movie adaptation, 212
plot summary, 212
supernatural literature, 212
“Ben Drowned,” 114
Benjamin, Walter
“Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 424
Benshoff, Harry M.
Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film, 100
Benson, E. F. (1867–1940), 213–215
The Angel of Pain, 213
animals as horrific elements, 214
“Caterpillars,” 214
Colin, 213
Colin II, 213–214
collections of, 214
Dodo, 213
early life of, 213
“The Face,” 215
family of, 213
full name of, 213
ghost stories of, 30
The Inheritor, 213
Lady Sybil Rorke, 214–215
The Luck of the Vails, 213
“The Man Who Went Too Far,” 213
memorable characters of, 214–215
preface to The Room in the Tower and Other Stories, 215
Raven’s Brood, 214
The Room in the Tower and Other Stories, 30, 215
women and, 214–215
Beowulf, 10–11, 12
Besant, Annie, 131
Bestwick, Simon, 270
Betancourt, John Gregory, 154
Bettelheim, Bruno
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, 169
Bierce, Ambrose (1842–1914?), 215–218
birthplace of, 215
“Bitter Bierce” nickname, 216
“The Boarded Window,” 217
“Chickamauga,” 217
children of, 216
circumstances of his death, 215
Civil War actions, 215–216
The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, 217
creation of fictional “authorities,” 217–218
“The Death of Halpin Frayser,” 326–328
The Devil’s Dictionary, 217
disappearance of, 217
fictional “authorities,” 217
horror stories, 217
influence of, 218
“An Inhabitant of Carcosa,” 217
journalistic career of, 216–217
marriage of, 216
Mexican Revolution, 217
notoriety of, 217
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” 217, 218
“out-of-body” horror tales, 217, 218
“A Psychological Shipwreck,” 218
tall tales, 217
war stories, 217
Billson, Anne
Suckers, 388
Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), 78–79
The Birds (1963), 57
“The Birds” (Maurier), 60
Blackwood, Algernon (1869–1951), 218–222
ambivalence toward the natural world, 220
“Ancient Sorceries,” 221
birthplace of, 218
“The Camp of the Dog,” 222
The Centaur, 220–221
death of, 222
early life of, 220
The Empty House, 220
“The Empty House,” 222
Episodes Before Thirty, 220
“The Glamour of the Snow,” 221
influence of, 218, 222
John Silence character, 218, 222
John Silence: Physician Extraordinary, 490–492
“The Man Who Found Out,” 221
“The Man Whom the Trees Loved,” 60, 220
mysticism and, 30, 218
“The Nemesis of Fire,” 222
the numinous, 645
“occult detective” genre, 222
psychic-detective sequence John Silence: Physician Extraordinary, 30, 218, 222
“Secret Worship,” 219
seduction trope, 221
“The Temptation of the Clay,” 60
“The Transfer,” 60
“The Wendigo,” 30, 219, 220
“The Willows,” 30, 60, 103, 220, 222, 847–848
The Blair Witch Project (dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999), 122
Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr (Terminal Reality, 2000), 122
Blatty, William Peter
The Exorcist, 117, 139, 146, 334, 682
public interest in horror, 153
Blavatsky, Helena, 131
Bleiler, E. F. (1920–2010), 223–224
at Charles Scribner’s Sons, 223
The Checklist of Fantastic Literature, 223
Dikty, T. E., 223
at Dover Publications, 223
full name of, 223
Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 223
history of science fiction analogies, 223
significance of, 223
World Fantasy Awards, 223
Blish, James
“More Light,” 509
Bloch, Robert (1917–1994), 224–229
American Gothic, 228
awards to, 228
“The Beasts of Barsac,” 226
“Catnip,” 226
“The Cloak,” 226
comic fantasies, 226
crime and weird fiction, 226–227
crime novels of, 227
Cthulhu Mythos and, 224
death of, 228
Egyptian tales, 225
Fantastic Adventures, 226
“The Feast in the Abbey,” 225
first novel of, 227
first professional appearance in print, 225
Gein, Ed, 414
“The Haunter of the Dark” (Lovecraft), 225
on horror films, 226
“House of the Hatchet,” 226
“Hungarian Rhapsody,” 226
The Jekyll Legacy, 228
Lori, 228
Lovecraft and, 225
“Lucy Comes to Stay,” 227
“The Mannikin,” 225
Milwaukee Fictioneers, 226
Monsters in Our Midst, 228
The Mysteries of the Worm (Prinn), 225
Mythos stories, 225, 307
Once Around the Bloch (autobiography), 226, 228
“One Way to Mars,” 227
The Opener of the Way, 227
Psycho, 39, 224, 227, 414, 618, 685
Psycho, sequels to, 228
Psycho-Paths, 228
The Scarf, 227
“The Secret in the Tomb,” 225
“The Shadow from the Steeple,” 225
“The Shambler from the Stars,” 225
“The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice,” 227
on splatterpunk, 764
Strange Eons, 228
supernatural screwball comedies, 226
television/movie scripts, 33, 227–228
That Hellbound Train, 334
trademark ending, 225
“The Weird Doom of Floyd Scrilch,” 226
Weird Tales and, 225
writing for Unknown, 226
writings after the death of Lovecraft, 225–226
“Yours Truly—Jack the Ripper,” 33, 227, 867–868
body horror, 229–230
cinema, 412
classic body horror works, 230
Cronenberg’s films, 230
definition of, 229
Love, 229
“new flesh” idea, 230
prevalence of, 229
prosthetics-based special effects, 230
“The Shadow over Innsmouth” (Lovecraft), 229–230
“Who Goes There?” (Campbell), 229
body snatching, 230–232
Anatomy Act of 1832, 232
“The Body Snatcher,” 231
“The Body Snatcher” (Stevenson), 232
Coma (Cook), 232
current status of, 232
definition of, 230
ethics of, 232
famous body snatchers, 231–232
Frankenstein (Shelley), 232
in literature, 232
Lovecraft, H. P., and, 232
mortsafes, 230
Murder Act of 1752, 232
reason for, 231
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 231
Bond, Nelson, 191
Book of the Dead (anthology), 118
Books of Blood, 232–233
Barker, Clive, and, 232–233
legacy of, 233
reaction to, 233
splatterpunk and, 233
themes of, 233
uniting thread of the stories, 233
Booth, Wayne, 807
Borderlands Press, 153
Borges, Jorge Luis (1899–1986), 234–235
characteristics of his fiction, 234, 235
complexity of ideas in, 234
Danielewski, Mark Z., and, 235
Ficciones, 234
“The Garden of Forking Paths,” 234
homages to, 235
importance of, 235
influence of, 235
Labyrinths, 234
labyrinth trope, 234
“The Library of Babel,” 234
“The Lottery in Babylon,” 234
Lovecraft and, 235
significance of, 234
“slipstream” and, 235
the term “Borgesian,” 234
“There Are More Things,” 235
“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” 234
World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, 235
“Born of Man and Woman” (Matheson), 34
Botting, Fred, 62
Bourgault du Coudray, Chantal, 65
Bowdern, William S., 359
Bowen, Elizabeth
death of, 329
“The Demon Lover,” 328–329
The Demon Lover and Other Stories, 68
Encounters, 68
on the ghost story, 68
Bowen, Marjorie (1885–1952), 235–237
attention to period detail, 235
birthplace, 235
characteristics of her work, 237
family name, 235
