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the English Romantic movement, 293
exploration of the imagination, 78
hallucinations, 293
his “opus maximus,” 295
influence of, 77
on knowledge and the imagination, 714
“Kubla Khan,” 293
laudanum and, 293
on The Monk (Lewis), 168, 614, 820
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 77–78, 293–295
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, excerpt from, 294
Southey, Robert, 293
vampire fiction, 157
Collier, John (1901–1980), 295–296
“After the Ball,” 296
“Another American Tragedy,” 295
awards to, 296
“Bird of Prey,” 296
“The Bottle Party,” 295
death of, 296
“The Devil, George, and Rosie,” 296
“Evening Primrose,” 295–296
“Fallen Star,” 296
Fancies and Goodnights, 296
full name of, 295
“Green Thoughts,” 295
“Incident on a Lake,” 295–296
“Over Insurance,” 296
“Thus I Refute Beelzy,” 296
Tom’s A-Cold, 295
Collingwood, R. G., xxx
Collins, Wilkie, 297–298
After Dark, 297
Armadale, 297
“Brother Griffith’s Story of Mad Monkton,” 297–298
“Brother Morgan’s Story of the Dead Hand,” 297
“Brother Morgan’s Story of the Dream Woman,” 297
death of, 298
full name of, 297
The Moonstone, 297, 298
see also “The Colour out of Space” (Lovecraft). See also “The Colour out of Space” (Lovecraft)
“The Siege of the Black Cottage,” 297
“The Traveller’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed,” 297
The Woman in White, 297, 298
The Color out of Time (Shea), 299
Colossal Cave Adventure (Crowther, 1976), 122
“The Colour out of Space” (Lovecraft), 298–300
cinematic adaptations, 299
The Color out of Time (Shea), 299
the Cthulhu Mythos and, 299
first publication of, 298
Lovecraft’s opinion of, 299
At the Mountains of Madness, 298
plot summary, 298–299
Comics Code Authority, 170
Communion (Strieber), 300–302
critical reception of, 301
films of, 301
full title of, 300
idea and image of the “alien gray,” 300
irony of, 301
mysticism and, 301
plot summary, 300
popularity of, 301
significance of, 300
Strieber, Whitley, 300, 301
subtitle of, 301
UFO sightings and abduction, 300
The Complaint: Or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (Young), 21
Condé, Nicholas
The Religion, 146
Conjure Wife (Leiber), 34, 302–303
cinematic adaptations, 303
first publication of, 302
gender solidarity, 302
influence of, 303
Leiber, Fritz, 302
premise of, 302
as profoundly frightening, 302
success of, 303
Connelly, Frances S., 405
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness, 338
The Conspiracy against the Human Race (Ligotti), 45
Cook, Robin
Coma, 232
Coppard, A. E. (1878–1957), 303–304
“Adam & Eve & Pinch Me,” 303
“Arabesque: The Mouse,” 303–304
on belief in the supernatural, 304
“Clorinda Walks in Heaven,” 304
current status of, 304
“Father Raven,” 304
full name of, 303
“The Green Drake,” 303
“The Old Venerable,” 303
physical horror, 303
“Piffingcap,” 303
copypasta, 114
Corelli, Marie, 131, 254
Cornell, Louis, 670
cosmic indifferentism, 164
Cottam, F. G.
The House of Lost Souls, 134
Council on Books in War Time, 89
“courtly” culture, 12
Cowdray Curse, 187
Crawford, Anne, 160
Crawford, F. Marion (1854–1908), 304–306
“For the Blood Is the Life,” 344, 467
“For Blood is the Life,” 306
date and place of birth, 304
“The Dead Smile,” 306
death of, 306
family of, 304–305
full name of, 305
Khaled, 305
“The King’s Messenger,” 306
“Man Overboard,” 306
popularity of, 304
“The Screaming Skull,” 306, 736–737
“The Upper Berth,” 305, 306
Crawford, William L., 87
The Creature from the Black Lagoon (film), 288
creature horror, 17
Creed, Barbara
“Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine,” 98
The Creeps Omnibus, 87
Creeps series, 87
creepypasta, 114
“Crew of Light” (Craft), 64
Crocker, John Wilson, 604
Cronenberg, David, 230
Cronin, Justin
The Passage, 44
Crowley, Aleister, 132
Diary of a Drug Fiend, 132
fame of, 132
Moonchild, 132
the Crusades, 10
Cthulhu Mythos, 306–308
Arkham House Books, 307
Bloch, Robert, 307
“The Call of Cthulhu,” 264, 306
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, 280
close-up of, 307
codifying of, 308, 330
“The Colour out of Space” (Lovecraft), 193, 299
common elements of, 306
current status of, 308
Dagon (Chappell) and, 309
definition of, 306
Derleth, August, 307–308
Great Old Ones, 306, 308
heavy metal music and, 308
horror movies and, 308
horror video games, 123
Howard, Robert E., 307, 454
Long, Frank Belknap, 307
Lovecraft Circle of horror writers, 307
At the Mountains of Madness, 193
The Mysteries of the Worm, 225
Mythos concepts, 307
Necronomicon, 306
notable contributors to, 308
origin of, 306
“Pseudomythology,” 307
“The Return of the Sorcerer” (Smith), 307
role-playing games, board games, and computer games, 308
Smith, Clark Ashton, 307
Cumaean Sibyl, 53
Dacre, Charlotte
Zofloya the Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century, 614, 682
Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books (King James I), 15
Dagon, 309–310
Cthulhu Mythos and, 309
Dagon (Chappell) and, 309
plot summary, 309
Dali, Salvador, 786
The Damnation Game (Barker), 310–311
devils and demons, 335
Faustian exchange theme, 310, 311
plot summary, 310
review of, 310–311
significance of, 311
The Damned, 311–312
as autobiographical, 312
Huysmans, J. K. (Joris-Karl), 311
Là-Bas translation, 311
plot summary, 311–312
Danielewski, Mark Z.
The
Familiar, 448
horror and, 42
House of Leaves, 112, 235, 447–449
Daniels, Les, 35
Dante Alighieri, 143–144
Divine Comedy, 333, 334
Dare You? 172–173
Dark Ages, 9
The Dark Domain, 313–314
“The Area,” 313
The Book of Fire, 313
“In the Compartment,” 313
élan vital, theory of, 313
favorable notice of, 313
The Grabinski Reader, 313
influence of, 313
Lipinski, Miroslaw, 313
The Motion Demon, 313
“Saturnin Sektor,” 313
Darker Than You Think (Williamson), 34
dark fantasy, 314–315
antihero and, 315
attitude of the writers of, 315
definition of, 314–315
dreamlike horror fiction and, 314
Grendel (Gardner), 315
otherworld of the Cenobites, 314
Phantastes (MacDonald), 314
setting and, 314–315
Dark Forces (1980), 118
Dark Gods (Klein), 315–318
atmospheric tension, 316
“Black Man with a Horn,” 317
“Children of the Kingdom,” 316
Klein, T. E. D., 315–316
Lovecraft, H. P., and, 316
“Nadelman’s God,” 317
“Petey,” 316–317
themes of, 315
vagueness of horror, 316, 317
writing style of Klein, 316
Dark Harvest press, 153
The Dark Knight Returns (Miller), 96
“The Dark Music” (Beaumont), 37
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre, 88
Dark Regions, 153
The Dark Side: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Kellett), 596
The Dark Tower (King), 318–319
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” 318
a cult work, 318
film adaptations, 319
The Gunslinger, 318
influence of, 318
interconnectedness of, 318, 319
King, Stephen, 318
significance of, 319
volumes comprising, 318
Darwin, Charles, 145
Das Petermännchen (Spiess), 23
Datlow, Ellen (1949–), 319–323
Alien Sex, 319
awards and nominations for, 320
Blood Is Not Enough, 319
on contemporary horror, 323
on defining horror, 321–322
on dystopian and postapocalyptic fiction, 321
on the field of horror publishing, 322
interview with, 320–323
recommended anthologies, 322–323
significance of, 319
Snow White, Blood Red anthology, 320
themes of Datlow’s anthologies, 320
A Whisper of Blood, 319
Windling, Terri, and, 319
The Year’s Best Fantasy, 319
Davies, Andrew, 70
Davies, Rosemary Reeve, 710
de Bont, Jan, 422
De Felitta, Frank
The Entity, 467
De la Mare, Walter (1873–1956), 323–326
awards to, 325
Collected Stories for Children, 325
date and place of birth, 323
Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe, 326
education of, 324
first published work, 324
full name of, 323
“The Green Room,” 325
“The Guardian,” 334
horror and supernatural writings of, 324–325
influence of, 326
“The Listeners,” 323, 325, 560–562
The Listeners and Other Poems, 324
literary criticism, 325–326
Memoirs of a Midget, 325
“Out of the Deep,” 663–664
The Return, 325, 704–705 “A Revenant,” 325
“Seaton’s Aunt,” 324, 325
Some Women Novelists of the Seventies, 325–326
Songs of Childhood, 324
spirit possession, 325
De Quincey, Thomas
“On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts” (De Quincey), 78
Deane, Hamilton, 341
“The Death of Halpin Frayser” (Bierce), 326–328
archetype of the zombie, 327
creation of fictional “authorities,” 217–218
as an early zombie, 327
Encyclopedia of the Zombie (2014), 327
first publication of, 326
Lovecraft, H. P., on, 327–328
notable features of, 327
Oedipus complex, 327
plot summary, 326
death, theme of, 27–28
Defoe, Daniel
An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions (Defoe), 20
The Political History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern (Defoe), 20
significance of, 20
A System of Magic, or the History of the Black Art (Defoe), 20
A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal, the Next Day After Her Death, to One
Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury, the 8th of September, 1705 (Defoe), 85
Del Toro, Guillermo, 731
Dell Abyss line of horror paperbacks, 120–121
demonic possession, 359
“The Demon Lover” (Bowen), 328–329
Bowen, Elizabeth, 328, 329
demon-lover ballads, 329
plot summary, 328–329
Dennis, John, 20
Der Geisterseher (The Ghost-Seer), 23
Derleth, August (1909–1971), 329–331
Arkham House, 189, 190, 307, 330–331
“Bat’s Belfry,” 329
the Cthulhu Mythos and, 33, 330
“The Dunwich Horror” and, 351–352
influences on, 329
The King in Yellow (Chambers), 509
“The Lair of the Star Spawn,” 330
Lovecraft, H. P., and, 329, 330
The Mask of Cthulhu, 330
Mythos contributions, 308
outstanding weird tales of, 330
posthumous collaborations with Lovecraft, 330
proprietary influence over the Mythos, 308
regional fiction of, 329–330
Sleep No More, 88
Someone in the Dark, 329
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, 330
The Trail of Cthulhu, 330
Weird Tales and, 329
desktop publishing, 90
The Devil Rides Out (Wheatley), 331–332
Duke de Richleau, 331–332
excerpt from, 332
film adaptations, 332
legacy of the investment in occult knowledge, 332
lowbrow anthologies and, 31
plot summary, 332
Wheatley, Dennis, and, 331
devils and demons, 333–335
Barker, Clive, and, 334
The Book of the Law (Crowley), 333
children, linking of demons to, 334
in contemporary works of horror fiction, 334
the Cthulhu Mythos, 334
The Damnation Game (Barker), 335
The Deathbird Stories (Ellison), 334–335
demon defined, 333
demonic queerness, 334
demon lover motif, 334
demons, imaginative depictions of depictions, 333
demons, origin of, 333
demon summoning, 333
Dictionnaire Infernal (de Plancy), 333
Divine Comedy (Dante), 333, 334
The Exorcist (Blatty), 334
Faust, legend of, 333
The Fifth Child (Lessing), 334
The Golden Bough (Frazer), 333
“The Great God Pan” (Machen), 334
grimoires, purposes of, 333
grimoires defined, 333
“The Guardian” (de la Mare), 334
and the iconic representation of urban horror in stories, 334
interest in demonology and grimoires, 333
King, Stephen, 334, 335
King, Stephen, and, 334
The Magus (Barrett), 333
The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), 334
The Monk (Lewis), 334, 820
The Mysterious Stranger (Twain), 334
Needful Things (King), 335
Paradise Lost (Milton), 334
representations of devils and demons, 333
Rosemary’s Baby (Levin), 334
Satan, 334
Satan (Leven), 334
satanic ambiguous traits, 334
That Hellbound Train (Bloch), 334
use of demons in horror literature, 333–334
Dick, Philip K. (1928–1982), 335–337
alternate history, use of, 336
attempted suicide, 335
awards to, 335
Blade Runner film, 336
central themes in his fiction, 335
death of, 336
education of, 335
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, 336
fear of losing identity, 335
film adaptations, 336
journal of, 336
The Man in the High Castle, 336
popularity of his work, 335, 336
productivity of, 335
settings for his protagonists, 335
Total Recall film, 336
VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), 336
Dickens, Charles
Barnaby Rudge, 81
Bleak House, 188
A Christmas Carol, 70
“The Signalman,” 70–71, 387
Dictionnaire Infernal (de Plancy), 333
didacticism, 109
Dikty, T. E., 223
Discoverie of Witchcraft (Scot), 15
Divine Comedy (Dante), 333, 334
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 15
the Doomsday play, 52–53
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 389
doubles, doppelgängers, and split selves, 337–339
Caleb Williams (Godwin), 337
The Devil’s Elixirs (Hoffmann), 337
dissociation or multiple personality, 337
“The Double” (Rank), 337
“double personality,” 337
doubles, 337–338
Frankenstein (Shelley), 337
Freud, Sigmund, 337
German romanticism and, 337
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 338
“The Horla” (Maupassant), 338
King, Stephen, 338
Lynch, David, 338
“multiplex personality,” 338
overtones of sexual panic, 338
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde), 338
post-traumatic stress, dissociative disorders, 338
Richter, Jean Paul, 337
“The Sand-man” (Hoffmann), 337
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 338
trauma theory and, 337
the Uncanny,” 337
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 443–444
Collins, Wilkie, and, 297
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 30, 188, 444–446
“Lot No. 249” (1892), 138, 564–565, 627
