Horror Literature through History
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“The Ring of Thoth,” 627
Dozois, Gardner, 589
Dracula (Stoker), 339–342
The Beetle (Marsh), 340
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), 341
Carmilla (Le Fanu), 339
complexity of, 339–341
Count Dracula (1977), 341
Deane, Hamilton, 341
Dracula (1979), 341
dramatization of cultural conflicts, 341
an epistolary novel, 339
film versions of, 341
historical Dracula, 342
history of the vampire in English, 339
Horror of Dracula (1958), 341
Laemmle, Carl, 341
Lugosi, Bela, 341
Nosferatu (1922), 341
plot summary, 339
popularity of, 341
renewed fascination with, 341
In Search of Dracula: A True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends (McNally and Florescu), 341
Spiritualism and, 763
Stoker, Bram, 339, 341, 342
theatrical version of, 341
Transylvania, 341–342
vampires, definition of, 339
The Vampyre (Polidori), 339
Varney the Vampire (Prest), 339
Vlad Tepes, 341–342
Drake, Nathan, 73
Dramatic Lyrics (Browning), 79
dreams and nightmares, 342–343
“For the Blood Is the Life” (Crawford), 344
dreams defined, 342
“dream worlds,” 344
Fuseli, Henry, 343
“The Hall Bedroom” (Freeman), 344
“The Horla” (Maupassant), 344
“hypnagogic” dreams, 342–343
incubus and succubus, 343
Jones, Ernest, 342
Ligotti, Thomas, 344
“Lukundoo” (White), 343
master image of the Gothic horror genre, 343
night hag, 343
The Night Land (Hodgson), 344
On the Nightmare (Jones), 342
“Nightmare” series of paintings by Fuseli, 343
notable authors using nightmares in their work, 344
notable Gothic novels featuring dreams, 344
notable short stories using dreams as key elements, 344
“The Sand-man” (Hoffmann), 344
the Surrealists and, 344
the Symbolists and, 344
White, Edward Lucas, 344
Dresden, Harry, 652
The Drowning Girl (Kiernan), 345–346
awards to, 345
female Gothic tradition, 346
“feminization of the weird,” 346
full title of, 345
House of Leaves (Danielewski), 448
Imp, 346
inspiration from Modernist writers, 345–346
Kiernan, Caitlín R., 345
plot summary, 345
Straub, Peter, 345
Du Maurier, Daphne (1907–1989), 346–348
The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Some Stories, 346, 347
“The Birds,” 346, 347, 348, 580
The Birds and Other Stories, 347
as Dame of the British Empire, 348
date and place of birth, 346
“Don’t Look Now,” 347, 348
early reception of her work, 346
family of, 346
Forster, Margaret, 348
Frenchman’s Creek, 346
Horner, Avril, 348
The House on the Strand, 347
Kiss Me Again Stranger, 346–347
The Loving Spirit, 346
Rebecca, 346, 347–348
revival of current interest in, 348
Trilby, 799–800
Zlosnik, Sue, 348
The Duchess of Malfi (Webster), 17
Ducornet, Rikki, 786
Due, Tananarive (1966–), 348–350
The Between, 349
antiracist sensibility, 349
awards to, 348–349
Barnes, Steven, 349
comparison with other black speculative fiction writers, 349
Danger Word, 349
date and place of birth, 349
Devil’s Wake, 349
Domino Falls, 349
Freedom in the Family, 349
The Good House, 349
Joplin’s Ghost, 349
as a journalist, 348
the Life Brothers, 348
The Living Blood, 349
My Soul to Keep, 349
NAACP Image Award, 349
In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Story, 349
preoccupation with the ethics of using power, 349
supernatural thriller series of, 348
“Dunsanian restraint,” 736
Dunsany, Lord, 30
“The Dunwich Horror,” 350–352
Cthulhu Mythos and, 351
Derleth, August, and, 351–352
description of Wilbur Whately’s corpse, 351
film adaptation of, 352
influences on, 350
in mythic terms, 352
plot summary, 350–351
Dyer, Richard
“Children of the Night: Vampirism as Homosexuality, Homosexuality as Vampirism,” 100
Easton, Michael, 777
EC Comics, 34, 91–92, 96, 153, 170
ecoGothic, 61
eco-horror, 56–61 alternative names for, 56
animal horror, 60
background of, 56–57
The Birds (1963), 57
“The Birds” (du Maurier), 60, 346, 347
Blackwood, Algernon, 60
The Ceremonies (Klein), 60
current status of, 60
ecocentric (naturecentric) viewpoint, 56–57
ecoGothic, 61
eco-horror text defined, 56
environmental movement and, 57
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and, 57
Frogs (1972), 57
Gilgamesh, 59
“golden rule” of eco-horror, 56
horror cinema and, 57
Jaws (Benchley), 60
King, Stephen, 60
Klein, T. E. D., 60
literature, 59
Lovecraft, H. P., 60
main elements of, 56–57
“The Man Whom the Trees Loved” (Blackwood), 60
natural horror, 57
notable natural horror films, 57
Orca (1977), 57
place of contemporary eco-horror literature, 60–61
plant horror, 60
Silent Spring (Carson), 57
“The Temptation of the Clay” (Blackwood), 60
“The Transfer” (Blackwood), 60
trope of the “Deep Dark Forest,” 59
Wilderness Act and, 57
“The Willows” (Blackwood), 60
eco-trauma, 61
Edel, Leon
The Ghostly Tales of Henry James, 483
élan vital, theory of, 313
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (Gray), 21
Elkins, Charles L., 483
Ellis, Bret Easton, 42
American Psycho, 764
Ellison, Harlan (1934–), 353–355, 842
Again, Dangerous Visions analogy, 354
angry narrative voice, 353, 354
awards to, 353, 355
best-known stories of, 353
“A Boy and His Dog,” 354
characteristics of, 353, 354
controversy and, 354
Dangerous Visions, 89
Dangerous Visions analogy, 354
The Deathbird Stories, 334–335
Deathbird Stories, 353–354
as an editor, 354
“How Interesting: A Tiny Man,” 353
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” (Ellison), 798
influence and impact of, 353
Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka/The Fiction of Harlan Ellison, 354
New
Wave and, 354
nonfiction of, 354–355
“The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World,” 354
reputation of, 353
sampling of other stories of interest, 354
on Simmons, Dan, 753
“Strange Wine,” 354
writing strengths of, 353
Elwood, Roger, 89
Encyclopedia of the Zombie (2014), 327
Endore, S. Guy, 185, 835
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 57
Epic of Gilgamesh, 3
eschatological writing, 51–52
eschatology, 51, 55
Etchison, Dennis, 355–356
awards to, 355
Campbell, Ramsey, on, 270
characteristic scenes of his stories, 355
criticism of, 356
“The Dark Country,” 355
Dark Country, 119
as an editor, 356
“It Only Comes Out at Night,” 355
“The Late Shift,” 355
“The Nighthawk,” 355
novels of, 356
reputation of, 356
short fiction of, 355–356
Eumenides (Aeschylus), 5
Euripides, 657
Hecuba, 107
Evance, Susan, 77
Ewers, Hanns Heinz (1871–1943), 356–357
Alraune, 185, 357
childhood of, 356
Das Grauen (The Grey), 357
date and place of birth, 356
death of, 357
Die Besessenen (The Possessed ), 357
Die Religion des Satan (The Religion of Satan ), 357
as an enemy agent, 357
Ewers, Maria, and, 356
family of, 356
Frank Braun trilogy, 357
legacy of, 357
nationalism and, 357
philosemitism of, 357
popularity of, 356
“The Spider,” 357
The Exorcist (Blatty), 358–360
Blatty, William Peter, 358
Bowdern, William S., 359
Catholicism and, 359
cinematic possession neurosis, 358–359
demonic possession, 359
The Devils (film), 359
The Devils of Loudun (Huxley), 359
effect of, 358–359
film adaptation, 358
as iconic, 358
influence of, 360
inspiration for, 359
mainstream fiction and, 39
plot summary, 358
Rosemary’s Baby (film), 359
Rosemary’s Baby (Levin), 359
world’s scariest Christian novel, 358
expressionism, 391
Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror (Winters), 397–398
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe), 361–363
cinematic adaptations, 363
“The Haunted Palace,” 81, 361–362, 363
Lovecraft’s “Supernatural Horror in Literature” and, 363
plot summary, 361, 363
symbolic aspects of, 361, 363
Falque, Marianne, 819
Famous Monsters of Filmland, 95
Farris, John (1936–), 364–365
Dear Dead Delilah, 364
in eBook format, 364
Elvisland, 364
full name of, 364
The Fury, 364
Harrison High School series, 364
High Bloods, 364
homage to, 364
pen name of, 364
personal literary vision, 364
Son of the Endless Night, 364
When Michael Calls, 364
You Don’t Scare Me, 364
Faulkner, William (1897–1962), 365–368
Absalom, Absalom, 367
Anderson, Sherwood, 366
callous prose of, 367
date and place of birth, 366
fame of, 366
Glasgow, Ellen, on, 367
As I Lay Dying, 367–368
Light in August, 367
The Sound and the Fury, 366
Southern Gothic fiction, 366, 367–368
Faust, legend of, 333
Fear (Hubbard), 368–369
Campbell, John W., 368
first publication of, 368
plot summary, 368–369
Scientology, 369
Stableford, Brian, on, 369
Fedogan and Bremer, 191
female Gothic, 70, 346, 696
Ferry, Jean
The Fashionable Tiger, 786
Féval, Paul (1816–1887), 370–371
Catholicism and, 370
Contes de Bretagne, 370
early collections, 370
fame of, 370
Jean Diable (John Devil ), 370
Le Chevalier Ténèbre (Knightshade ), 370
Les Contes de nos pères, 370
Les Habits Noirs, 370
Les Revenants (Revenants), 370
Le Ville-Vampire, 370
place of birth, 370
serial fiction of, 370
son of, 370
Files, Gemma, 167
Finney, Jack
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 37, 39, 139
Fisher, Mark
The Weird and the Eerie, 487
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
“A Short Trip Home,” 467, 750–752
folk horror, notable examples of, 18
forbidden knowledge or power, 371–372
ancient Greek literature and, 371–372
Bluebeard’s wife, 372
horror fiction and, 372
Lucifer/Satan’s war against God, 371–372
Pandora in Hesiod’s Works and Days, 372
Pandoran, 371
Promethean, 371
Prometheus in Hesiod’s Theogony, 371
Fortune, Dion
The Secrets of Dr. Taverner, 652
the Fox sisters, 28
frame narratives, 585–586
frame story, 373–374
Books of Blood (Barker), 374
“The Call of Cthulhu” (Lovecraft), 374
the club story, 373–374
Clute, John, on, 373
definition of, 373
examples of, 373
Frankenstein (Shelley), 373
Gothic novels using, 373
in horror cinema, 374
Interview with the Vampire (Rice), 374
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Potocki), 373
Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin), 373
proliferation of the use of, 373
versions of in horror fiction, 374
Frankenstein, 374–377
date of first publication, 375
differences in editions, 376
editions of, 375
full title of, 374
G. & W. B. Whittaker edition, 375
interpretations of, 377
Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor and Jone edition, 375
mad scientist, 584
Moers, Ellen, on, 377
the monster wakes (excerpt from Shelley’s novel), 375
original author of, 374
plot summary, 376
queer readings of, 376
redeeming monsters and, 377
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, on, 376
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 375
Universal Studios’ 1931
film of, 375, 377
See also Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; the legacy of Frankenstein: from Gothic novel to cultural myth
Franklin, Ruth
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, 483
Fraser, Brendan, 628
Fraser, Phyllis, 88
Frayling, Sir Christopher, 158
Freeman, Mary E.
“The Hall Bedroom,” 344
Freud, Sigmund, 337, 405, 418, 426, 728, 748, 752, 805
Friston, D. H., 272
Frogs (1972), 57
Fuseli, Henry
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hypnagogic visions, 343
The Nightmare (painting), 343–344, 468
sleep paralysis, 468
Gaiman, Neil (1955–), 379–380
awards to, 379, 380
Coraline, 172, 379–380
current status of, 380
The Graveyard Book, 380
“Make Good Art” commencement address, 380
Penny, Laurie, on, 380
on Kiernan, Caitlín R., 503
place of birth, 379
The Sandman, 379
The Sandman: Overture, 380
Gaines, Max, 91
Gaines, William M., 91–92, 93
Galland, Antoine, 798
The Garden of Fear, 87
Gardner, John
Grendel, 315
Gautier, Théophile (1811–1872), 381–382
“Arria Marcella,” 382
collected works of, 382
“ Deux acteurs pour un rôle ” (“Two Actors for One Role”), 382
femme fatale imagery, 382
historical fantasies, 381
The Hunger (television series), 381
Jettatura (“The Evil Eye”), 382
La Morte amoureuse (Clarimonde), 382
“ Le Chevalier Double ” (The Duplicated Knight), 382
Mademoiselle de Maupin, 381
Nisard, Desiré, 381
perverse eroticism, 382
Spirite, 382
supernatural fantasies of, 382
“Une nuit de Cléopâtre ,” 381
Gein, Ed, 414
Gelb, Jeff, 119
gender, sexuality, and the monsters of literary horror, 61–67
Alien (1979), 63
Botting, Fred, 62
Carmilla (Le Fanu), 64, 272–274
“Crew of Light” (Craft), 64
Dracula.(Stoker), 64
female werewolves, 65
“feminine” tradition, 62
Frankenstein (Shelley), 62, 63, 64
gendered traditions of horror literature, 62
Ginger Snaps (2001 film), 65–66
Gothic Romance, 62
Halberstam, Judith, 65
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan, 64
“The Loves of Lady Purple” (Carter), 64
Lucy Westenra, 64
“masculine” tradition, 62, 63
misogyny, 63
Mister Creecher (Priestley), 63
The Monster’s Wife (Horsley), 64
monstrosity, 62, 63
overview of, 61–62
Patchwork Girl, 63
queer text, 63–64
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 62
“The Werewolf” (Housman), 65
werewolves, 65–66
Western rape culture, 65
White Is for Witching (Oyeyemi), 64–65
“The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains” (Marryat), 65
Genonceaux, Léon, 761
German Expressionism, 411
German romanticism, 337
German School of Terror, 73
Gernsback, Hugo, 102
Gespensterbuch, 85
Ghelderode, Michel de, 344
ghost hunters, 421
“The Ghost Ship,” 382–383
Machen, Arthur, on, 383
Middleton, Richard, 383
plot summary, 382–383
ghosts in Greek literature, 5–6
ghost stories, 67–72