Horror Literature through History
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“The Black Cat” (Poe), 70
Bowen, Elizabeth, 68
A Christmas Carol (Dickens), 70
definition of, 67
Female Gothic mode, 70
Frankenstein (Shelley), 68
Ghost Story (Straub), 71
A Ghost Story for Christmas series, 70–71
The Haunting of Hill House, 71
Hoffmann, E. T. A., 67
House of Leaves (Danielewski), 71
James, Henry, 68, 69
James, M. R., 67
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Irving), 68
The Little Stranger, 71
Lunar Park (Ellis), 71
“The Masque of the Red Death” (Poe), 69–70
“The Mezzotint” (James), 67
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” (James), 67
psychological dissolution of characters and, 71
“The Sand-man” (Hoffmann), 67
The Shining (King), 71
short story form of, 67
“The Signalman,” 70–71
“The Tapestried Chamber” (Scott), 67
temporal framing of, 68
a timeline of important ghost stories, 1816–1945, 69t
“The Vampyre” (Polidori), 68
“The Villa Désirée” (Sinclair), 70
Villa Diodati, ghost story competition occurs at, 68
Wallace, Diana, on, 70
The Woman in Black, 71
Ghost Story (Straub), 383–385
King, Stephen, on, 384
plot summary, 383–384
‘Salem’s Lot and, 384–385
significance of, 383
tone of, 384
as a tribute to previous ghost stories writers, 385
“The Giaor” (Byron), 77
Gilgamesh, 59, 106–107
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
“Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper,” 108
“The Yellow Wall-Paper,” 108, 685, 863–865
Ginger Snaps (2001 film), 65–66
The Girl Next Door (Ketchum), 385–386
An American Crime film, 386
criticism of, 386
extreme violence, 386
film adaptation, 386
first publication of, 385
Ketchum, Jack, 385, 386
King, Stephen, on, 386
limited edition of, 386
plot summary, 386–387
as “Suburban Gothic,” 385
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (Leiber), 386–388
consumerism and, 386, 388
film adaptations, 388
as the forerunner of a subgenre of vampire stories, 387
innovations in, 387
Leiber, Fritz, 387
plot summary, 386–387
“The Signalman” (Dickens), 387
Suckers (Billson), 388
Vampire Junction (Somtow), 388
Glanvill, Joseph, 19, 550
Glasgow, Ellen, 367
In a Glass Darkly (Le Fanu), 464–465
Carmilla, 464–465
“The Familiar,” 464
“Green Tea,” 464
and the human psyche, 464, 465
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan, 464
“Mr. Justice Harbottle,” 464
The Room in the Dragon Volant, 464
gloomth, 77
Godwin, William
Caleb Williams, 337
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 157
Gogol, Nikolai (1809–1852), 388–390
Arabesques, 389
characteristics of, 388
Dead Souls, 389
death of, 390
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, on, 389
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, 388
influence of, 389
influences on, 388
length of his writing career, 389
Mirgorod, 389
“The Nose,” 389
“The Overcoat,” 389
reputation of, 388
“A Terrible Vengeance,” 389
The Golden Bough (Frazer), 333
Golden Gryphon Press, 191
The Golem (Meyrink), 390–391
expressionism and, 391
first publication of, 390
Jewish characters, 391
Jewish legend and, 390
Meyrink, Gustav, 390
plot summary, 390
Prague and, 390
“Good Country People” (O’Connor), 391–392
first publication of, 391
O’Connor, Flannery, 391, 392
plot summary, 391–392
reputation of, 391
significance of, 392
Southern Gothic style of, 391
Gordon, Peter E., 97
Gorky, Maxim, 535
Gothic
ecoGothic, 61
Female Gothic mode, 70
fictions, 24
gamification of Gothic, 122
Gothic Romance, 62
horror, 18
modern, 37
novel, 19, 26
return of, 42
science fiction and, 102–103
sublime landscapes, 59
trope of the “Deep Dark Forest,” 59
villain as hero, 29
Walpole, Horace, 23
Gothic hero/villain, 392–395
Caliban hero/villain, 394
compared to a traditional romantic hero, 392
examples, modern, 394
examples of, 393
heroes with moral ambiguities, 393
ideologies of the Enlightenment, 393
moral ambiguities and, 393
Promethean hero/villain, 394
romanticism and, 393
satanic hero/villain, 393–394
twentieth-century incarnations of, 394
types of, 393
the Gothic literary tradition, 72–77
Aikin, Anna Laetitia, 73
Beattie, James, 73
The Beetle (1897), 75
beginning and ending of, 72
Castle of Otranto (Walpole), 72–73
The Champion of Virtue (1777), 73
cinema and, 75
contemporary debates around horror and terror, 73
Decadent movement and, 75
development of the Gothic, 73
difference between the Gothic and horror, 75–76
Drake, Nathan, 73
fears of degeneration, 75
Frankenstein (Shelley), 74
German School of Terror, 73
Gothic importance to horror fiction, 72
Gothic Studies (special journal), 76
“H for Horrific” certificate, 75
horror comics, 75
International Gothic Association, 76
Lady Audley’s Secret (Braddon), 75
legitimization of the Gothic, 76
Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin), 72
The Monk, 73
penny dreadfuls, 75
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (Burke), 73
public resurgence, 76
Radcliffe, Ann, 73, 74
Reeve, Clara, 73
sensation novel, 75
splatterpunk, 75
studies of, 76
the sublime, 73–74
Supernatural Horror in Literature (Lovecraft), 75
terminological difficulty in, 72
timeline of major Gothic novels, 74t
“The Vampyre” (Polidori), 75
The Woman in White (Collins), 75
Gothic poetry, 77–84
background of, 77
Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), 78–79
Browning, Robert, 79–81
Bürger, August, 78
Byron, Lord, 77
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 77, 78
Coleridge’s poetic solution to the loss of God, 78–79
“The Conqueror Worm” (Poe), 81, 82–83
De Quin
cey, Thomas, 78
Evance, Susan, 77
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe), 81
Gray, Thomas, 77
“Lenore” (Bürger), 78
“Ligeia” (Poe), 81
Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin), 78
memorial poetry, 77
mental disturbance, 78
The Monk, 78
“On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts” (De Quincey), 78
“My Last Duchess” (Browning), 80–81
Poe, Edgar Allan, 81–83
Radcliffe, Ann, 77
Ratcliffe Highway murders, 78
“The Raven” (Poe), 81, 83
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge)), 77–78
Scott, Walter, 78
A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind (Prichard), 78
“The Vampyre” (Polidori), 77
“The Wild Huntsman” (Scott), 78
Grabin´ski, Stefan (1887–1936), 395–397
attitudes toward women, 396
children of, 396
date and place of birth, 395
death of, 396
ecstasy and, 396
first book of, 395
On the Hill of Roses, 395
influence of, 396
influences on, 395
Irzykowski, Karol, on, 395
Lipinski, Miroslaw, translations of, 396
marriage of, 396
The Motion Demon, 395, 396
A Mystery Tale, 396
as a pantheist, 395
Pilgrim’s Madness, 396
as a provincial teacher, 395
“psychofantasy,” 395
reputation of, 395
revitalized interest in his work, 396–397
sickness of, 395
symbolism, 344
theory of motion, 396
on wonder and fear, 396
“Wyznania ” (essay), 396
Grant, Charles L. (1942–2006), 397–399
awards to, 398
The Black Carousel collection, 398
body of his work, 397
critical opinion of, 397–398
The Curse, 397
date and place of birth, 397
death of, 398
Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror (Winters), 397
Morrell, David, on, 397
the Oxrun books, 398
pseudonyms of, 397
Ptacek, Kathryn, and, 398
“quiet horror,” 397
The Shadow of Alpha, 397
Shadows anthologies, 40, 118, 397
small town horror, 398
Grant, Donald M., 119
Grant, Mira
Feed, 112–113
Newsflesh Trilogy, 112
“Graveyard” school of poetry, 21
Gray, Thomas, 77
“The Great God Pan” (Machen), 399–401
comparisons to, 401
criticism of, 400
ending of, 400
“The Experiment,” 399
explanation of what it means to “see the god Pan,” 399
The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light, 399
homage to, 401
impact of, 401
Joshi, S. T., on, 400
King, Stephen, on, 401
Lane, John, on, 399
Machen, Arthur, 399
as misogynistic, 400
plot summary, 400
“scientific” plot device, 399–400
Great Old Ones, 306, 308
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, 88
Greek tragedy, 5
Greenberg, Martin H., 121
Greenberg, Martin Harry, 90
“Green Tea” (Le Fanu), 401–403
“Conclusion,” 403
In a Glass Darkly, 402
“Prologue,” 402–403
publications of, 401–402
significance of, 403
Swedenborg, Emanuel, and, 402, 403
Griswold, Rufus W., 680
the grotesque, 403–406
an aesthetic mode applied to visual mediums, 404
Anderson, Sherwood, 405
Connelly, Frances S., 405
definition of, 403–404
early literary usage of the term, 404
as an element of horror literature, 405
Freud, Sigmund, 405
global definition of, 405
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” (O’Connor), 404
and horror, 404
Hugo, Victor, use of, 405
important recent scholars of the grotesque, 405
as a literary term, 405
Lovecraft, H. P., use of, 405
McCarthy, Cormac, 405
Montaigne’s use of, 404
Poe, Edgar Allan, use of, 405
Rabelais and His World (Bakhtin), 405
Ruskin, John, 405
Shelley, Mary, use of, 405
Shun-Liang Chao, 405
significant contributions to the literature of, 405
the term “grotesque,” 404
theories of, 405
Todorov, Tzvetan, on, 400–401, 405
Walpole, Horace, use of, 405
“Grounds of Criticism in Poetry” (Dennis), 20
“The Group,” 638
Guran, Paula, 470, 521
“Gutenberg Parenthesis,” 115
Haggard, H. Rider (1856–1925), 407–408
Allan Quatermain, 408
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 407
current status of, 408
depictions of Africa, 407
Eric Brighteyes, 408
The Ghost Kings, 408
King Solomon’s Mines, 407
the Lost Race novel, 407
main subjects of, 407
Nada the Lily, 408
“Only a Dream . . .,” 408
A Princess of Mars (Burroughs), 407
racial attitudes of, 407
Red Eve, 408
She: A History of Adventure, 407, 738–739
She and Allan, 408, 739
significance of, 407
“Smith and the Pharaohs,” 408
Stella Fregellius, 408
supernaturalism, 407, 408
Haining, Peter (1940–2007), 408–409
body of work of, 408, 409
full name of, 408
pseudonyms of, 409
significance of, 409
Halberstam, Judith, 62, 65
Hamilton, Edmond
“The Man Who Evolved,” 102
Hamilton, Laurell K.
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, 120
Guilty Pleasures, 120
Hammer Films, 138
Hand, Elizabeth (1957–), 409–411
awards to, 409–410
The Book of Lamps and Banners, 410
Cass Neary thrillers, 409, 410
characters of, 410
critical recognition of, 410
Glimmering, 410
Hard Light, 410
horror motifs of, 410
Mortal Love, 410
Waking the Moon, 410
writing style of, 410
Wylding Hall, 410
The Hands of Orlac (Renard), 411–412
body horror cinema, 412
date published, 411
film adaptations, 411
German Expressionism and, 411
plot summary, 411
Renard, Maurice, 411
significance of, 411–412
speculative fiction, 411
Hardy, Thomas (1840–1928), 412–414
belief in ghosts, 412, 413
birthplace of, 412
death and burial of, 413
fiction of, 412, 413
“Novels of Character and Environment,” 412
occult folk belief, 413
poetry of, 412, 413
renown of, 412
role of supernatural belief in his fiction, 413
symbol
ism in, 413
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, 413
view of human existence, 412
Hare, William, 231–232
Harman, Graham, 46
Harris, Thomas (1940–), 414–415
birthplace of, 414
Black Sunday, 414
as a crime reporter, 414
Datlow, Ellen, on, 321
Gein, Ed, 414
Hannibal, 415
Hannibal Lecter, 321, 414
Hannibal Rising, 415
NBC’s Hannibal, 415
Red Dragon, 414
serial killer Buffalo Bill, 414
signature element in his writing, 414
The Silence of the Lambs, 121, 414–415, 777
Harrison, M. John, 167
The Course of the Heart, 133
Harsnett, Samuel
Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (Harsnett), 150–151
Hartley, L. P. (1895–1972), 415–417
The Go-Between, 415
indirection in his work, 415–416
Night Fears, 415–416
“A Visitor from Down Under,” 416
Hartwell, David, 644
Harvest Home (Tryon), 417–418
Joshi, S. T., on, 417
pastoral settings, 418
plot summary, 417, 418
rural horror, 417, 418
significance of, 417
Tryon, Thomas, 417
Harvey, W. F., 208
the haunted house or castle, 418–420
Bradbury, Ray, 419
flexibility of theme, 419
Freud, Sigmund, on the concept of, 418
haunted house, definition of, 418
The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson), 419
The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne), 419
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan, 419
Marasco, Robert, 419
Mare, Walter de la, 419
Matheson, Richard, 419
Maupassant, Guy de, 419
notion of “The Uncanny,” 418
Radcliffe, Ann, 419
Reeve, Clara, 419
Walpole, Horace, 419
The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson), 420–422
cinematic influence of, 421
de Bont, Jan, 422
film adaptations, 422
ghost hunters, 421
influence of, 421–422
Matheson, Richard, 421
plot summary, 420
as the quintessential haunted house story, 420
Siddons, Anne Rivers, 421
Society for Psychic Research, 420
The Turn of the Screw (James), 420
Wise, Robert, 422
Hawker, Mary Elizabeth
“Cecilia de Noel,” 646
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804–1864), 422–427, 450
Benjamin, Walter, 424
birthplace of, 422
The Blithedale Romance, 426
Brown, Charles Brockden, 250
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 254
children of, 427
death and burial of, 427
“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” 425
eco-horror, 59
“Ethan Brand,” 425
Fanshawe, 423
“Feathertop,” 425
“The Gray Champion,” 424
the haunted house story and, 419
The House of the Seven Gables, 426, 449–451