by Matt Cardin
Bradbury, Ray, 36
in extraliterary media, 37
Finney, Jack, 37
Grant, Charles L., 40
horror periodical, 41
Interview with the Vampire (Rice), 40
Jackson, Shirley, 36–37
King, Stephen, 35, 40
Leiber, Fritz, 37
Levin, Ira, 39
macabre, banalization of, 37
Matheson, Richard, 37
men’s magazine market, 36
Rosemary’s Baby (Levin), 39
Second World War, 35, 36
The Shrinking Man (Matheson), 37
The Sinful Ones (Leiber), 37–38
small press and horror publishing, 40
Some of Your Blood (Sturgeon), 39
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury), 36
splatterpunk, 40
Sturgeon, Theodore, 39
timeline, 38t
vampire theme, 39
Weird Tales, 35, 36
Weird Tales alumni, 35
zombies, 40
horror in the twenty-first century, 41–47
background of, 41–42
Barron, Laird, 44–45
conclusion concerning, 46
The Conspiracy against the Human Race (Ligotti), 45
Danielewski, Mark Z., 42
Ellis, Bret Easton, 42
The Girl with All the Gifts (Carey), 44
Hill, Joe, 43
Hill, Susan, 42
infection, contemporary fascination with, 44
King, Stephen, 42
“Let the Old Dreams Die” (Lindqvist), 43
Let the Right One In (Lindqvist), 43
Ligotti, Thomas, 45
Lovecraft, H. P., 44
Mitchell, David, 42
monsters, 43
Mosse, Kate, 42
Nevill, Adam, 43
the “new weird,” 46
noteworthy contemporary horror writers, 43
Owen, Lauren, 42
Palahniuk, Chuck, 42
The Passage (Cronin), 44
postapocalyptic narrative, 44
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Austen and Grahame-Smith), 44, 872
The Red Tree (Kiernan), 42
revival of horror literature, 42
The Scarlet Gospels (Barker), 42
Thacker, Eugene, 46
timeline, 45t
vampires, 43–44
Warm Bodies (Marton), 44
Waters, Sarah, 42
the weird, 44–45
Winterson, Jeanette, 42
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Brooks), 44, 870
zombie fiction, 44
horror literature and science fiction, 101–106
Aldiss, Brian, 102
Amazing Stories, 102
beginning point of science fiction, 103
Blackwood, Algernon, 103
comparison of, 101–102
Frankenstein (Shelley), 103
Gernsback, Hugo, 102
hostile universe notion, 103
King, Stephen, 104, 105
Levin, Ira, 104
Lovecraft, H. P., 103
“The Man Who Evolved” (Hamilton), 102
marketing strategies of publishers, 102
Miéville, China, 105
notable writers of, 104
obliteration of generic distinction, 105
science fiction and the Gothic, 102–103
“Shambleau” (Moore), 102
thematic sublimation, 102
Thomas, Jeffrey, 105
timeline of horror and science fiction, selective, 103–104
use genre, 105
VanderMeer, Jeff, 105
“The Willows” (Blackwood), 103
horror literature as social criticism and commentary, 106–111
Aeschylus’s The Oresteia, 107
background of, 106–107
Campbell, Ramsey, 110
“Cool Air” (Lovecraft), 107
critical role played by horror literature, 110
defining horror, 109–110
De rerum natura (Lucretius), 107
Dracula (Stoker), 108
Euripides’s Hecuba, 107
“Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (Poe), 107
The Fireman (Hill), 107
Gilgamesh, 106–107
heresy of the didactic, 109
I Am Legend (Matheson), 107
Kiernan, Caitlín R., 109
The Monk (Lewis), 107, 108, 820
Oates, Joyce Carol, 108–109
O’Connor, Flannery, 109
Poe, Edgar Allan, 109, 110
positive social change through pointed criticism, 108
Sophocles’s Oedipus the King, 107
use of supernatural threats as allegories of social crisis, 107–108
vampirism-focused fictions, 110
Wisker, Gina, 110
Wood, Robin, 110
“The Yellow Wall-Paper” (Gilman), 108
horror literature in the Internet age, 111–116
background of, 111
“Ben Drowned,” 114, 115
“Candle Cove,” 114–115
Cloverfield (2008), 113
copypasta, 114
creepypasta, 114, 115
“cursed artifact,” 114
Feed (Grant), 112–113
“found-footage” horror movies, 113
“Gutenberg Parenthesis,” 115
A Head Full of Ghosts (Tremblay), 113–114
horror fiction’s engagement with the Internet, 112, 115
horror writing and, 114
House of Leaves (Danielewski), 112
the Internet as a reoccurring trope in cinema, 111
Newsflesh Trilogy (Grant), 112
No Sleep forum, 114
online culture and the horror writing of recent years, 112
Penpal (Auerbach), 114
recent horror films and, 111–112
Reddit.com, 114
Slender Man myth, 115
smiledog, 114
timeline of, 113t
Victor Surge, 115
horror magazines, 117–118
horror periodical, 41
horror publishing, 1975–1995: the boom years, 116–121
anthologies, 118
background of, 120–121
Ballantine Books, 117
Barker, Clive, 119–120
blockbuster novels and their associated film adaptations, 117
Book of the Dead (anthology), 118
Books of Blood (Barker), 120
The Clock Strikes Twelve, 117
Crypt of Cthulhu fanzines, 118
Dark Country (Etchison), 119
Dark Forces (1980), 118
dark suspense, 121
Dell Abyss line of horror paperbacks, 120–121
erotic horror fiction, 119
Grant, Donald M., 119
The Gunslinger (King), 119
Hamilton, Laurell K., 120
horror magazines, 117–118
Joshi, S. T., 117
King, Stephen, 117
list of significant authors and titles, 120
McCauley, Kirby, 118
notable writers in, 117
Poppy Z. Brite, 118, 120
Rice, Anne, 119
Scream Press, 119
Shadows (Grant), 118
Shadows with Eyes, 117
The Silence of the Lambs (Harris), 121
small press book market, 119
small-press horror magazines, 118
splatterpunk movement, 118–119
vampiric fiction, 119, 120
zombie fiction, 118–119
Horror Studies journal, 97
horror video games, 121–125
Alan Wake (Remedy Entertainment, 2010)., 125
Alone in the Dark, 121, 122, 124
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games, 2010), 124–125
The Blair Witch Project (dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sá
nchez, 1999), 122
Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr (Terminal Reality, 2000), 122
Cabal (1988), 123
The Call of Cthulhu (Chaosium, 1981), 123
Clive Barker’s Jericho (Mercury Steam Entertainment, 2007), 123
Clive Barker’s Nightbreed: The Action Game, 123
Clive Barker’s Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie, 123
Clive Barker’s Undying (DreamWorks Interactive, 2001), 123
Colossal Cave Adventure (Crowther, 1976), 122
CRL Group, 122
The Dark Eye (Inscape, 1995), 123
Dark Seed (Cyberdream, 1992), 125
Fatal Frame (Tecmo, 2001), 123
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father (Sierra On-line, 1993), 125
gamification of Gothic, 122
Harlan Ellison: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Dreamers Guild, 1995), 123
Impact Software Development, 123
Infogrames, 121
landmark Gothic tales and, 122
Lovecraft, H. P., and, 123
The Lurking Horror (Infocom, 1987), 123
Mikami, Shinji, 121
Outlast (Red Barrels, 2013), 123
P.T. (Kojima Productions, 2014), 124
Raynal, Frédérick, 121
Resident Evil (Capcom, 1996), 121, 122
Resident Evil 4 (Capcom, 2005), 124
Silent Hill, 124, 125
subversion of aesthetics, 123
survival horror games, 123–124
text adventures, 122
timeline ofsignificant horror video (and computer) games, 124t
the unreliable narrator, 123
Vampire: Master of Darkness (SIMS, 1992), 123
writer figure, 125
Zork (Infocom, 1979), 122
Horror Writers Association, 241
Horsley, Kate
The Monster’s Wife, 64
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle), 30, 444–446
adaptations of, 446
“the Baskerville effect,” 446
complexity of, 444–445
epistolary format of, 444
excerpt from, 445
Gothic tropes in, 444
place in the horror canon, 446
popularity of, 446
sensational elements in, 446
The House Next Door (Siddons), 446–447
King, Stephen, on, 447
plot of, 446
Siddons, Anne Rivers, 446
style of, 447
House of Leaves (Danielewski), 447–449
Danielewski, Mark Z., 447
experimental horror fiction and, 447
first publication of, 447
horrors in, 448
influence of, 448
“The Navidson Report,” 448
subject of, 448
synopsis, 447–448
as a touchstone of postmodern writing, 447
The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne), 449–451
cinematic adaptations, 449–450
date published, 449
excerpt from, 450
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 449
influence of, 450–451
Lovecraft, H. P., on, 450
plot summary, 449
primary action of, 449
The House on the Borderland (Hodgson), 451–453
characters of, 452
clumsiness of, 452
first publication of, 451
graphic novel adaptation of, 452
influence of, 452
marginal region idea, 452
narrative flow of, 452
significance of, 452
style of, 451–452
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, 178
Howard, Robert E., 642
Howard, Robert E. (1906–1936), 453–455
birthplace of, 453
“Black Canaan,” 454
“The Black Stone,” 454
Conan the Barbarian, 453
Cthulhu Mythos and, 307, 454
“The Dead Remember,” 454
death of, 454
“The Little People,” 642
Lovecraft, H. P., and, 33, 454
“Man on the Ground,” 454
“Old Garfield’s Heart,” 454
“Pigeons from Hell,” 453, 454
“Sea Curse,” 454
Unaussprechlichen Kulten (Nameless Cults), 454
Weird Tales and, 454
The Whole Wide World film, 454
“Wolfshead,” 454
“Worms of the Earth,” 454, 642
Hubbard, L. Ron (1911–1986), 454–456
Battlefield Earth, 455
Fear, 368–369, 455–456, 685
full name of, 455
Return to the Stars, 455
Scientology, 456
The Typewriter in the Sky, 455, 456
Hugo, Victor (1802–1885), 405, 456–458
Bug-Jargal, 457
exile of, 456
French Romantic movement, 456
“frenetic school” of French horror fiction, 457
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 456, 457
Les Misérables, 456, 457
L’Homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughs), 457
The Man Who Laughs, 457–458
melodrama and political polemic, 457
Notre-Dame de Paris—1482, 457
Hunter, William/John, 231
Husserl, Edmund, 610
Huxley, Aldous
The Devils of Loudun, 359
Huysmans, J. K. (1848–1907), 458–459
À Rebours, 458–459, 675
The Damned, 467
description of a Black Mass, 459
En Rade, 459
full name of, 458
influence of, 458
Là-Bas, 459
mastery of description, 458
pen name of, 458
phases of his career, 458
religious conversion, 458
“supernatural realism,” 458
writing style of, 458
Huysmans, J. K. (Joris-Karl)
The Damned, 311
hypermasculinity, 65
I Am Legend (Matheson), 461–462
awarded, 462
as a benchmark, 462
cinematic adaptations, 461, 462
Dark Benediction (Miller Jr.) and, 462
impact on popular culture, 462
King, Stephen, on, 462
plot summary, 461
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” (Ellison), 463–464
events motivating the writing of, 463
narrator of, 463
plot summary, 463
illuminated medieval apocalypse manuscripts, 52
Impact Software Development, 123
incubi and succubi, 465–469
Augustine (Saint) on, 465–466
“For the Blood Is the Life” (Crawford), 467
Chaldeans, 465
Daemonolatreia (Rémy), 466
The Damned (Huysmans), 467
De Daemonialitate et Incubis et Succubis (Sinistrari), 466–467
definition of, 465
The Entity (De Felitta), 467
film adaptations, 467
first mention of incubi, 465
The Incubus (Russell), 467
Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of the Witches), 466
The Monk (Lewis), 467, 820
The Nightmare (Fuseli) painting, 468
Rémy, Nicholas, 466
Rosemary’s Baby (Levin), 467
as scientific fact, 466
sexual contact with humans, 465
“A Short Trip Home” (Fitzgerald), 467
significance of, 468
Thomas Aquinas on, 466
witch trials and, 466
infection, contemporary fascination with, 44
intellectual history, 97
International Gothic Association (IGA), 469–470
Advisory Committee, 470
Annual General Meeting, 470
<
br /> biennial conferences, 469
Executive Committee, 470
founding of, 76, 469
Gothic Studies journal, 76, 469, 470
International Gothic books, 469
mission of, 470
past presidents of, 470
presidency of, 470
website of, 469
work of, 469
International Horror Guild (IHG), 470–471
award categories, 471
date created, 470
Guran, Paula, 470
IHG Awards, 470–471
legacy of, 471
“Living Legend” award, 471
notable IHG Awards jury members, 470
original name of, 470
purpose of, 470
website of, 471
interstitial writing, 634
Interview with the Vampire (Rice), 40, 471–473
Claudia, 472
date published, 471
Dracula’s Daughter film, 472
as an elongated allegory for homosexual desire, 472–473
film adaptations, 473
holy terrors of the Catholic Church, 144
influence of, 473
key influences on, 472
plot summary, 471–472
polymorphous sensuality, 472
Spooner, Catherine, on, 472
sympathetic vampire, 472
a template for Goths, 472
The Invisible Man (Wells), 473–474
author of, 473
date published, 473
film adaptations, 474
initial horror of, 474
as a moral tale, 473
plot summary, 473
Republic (Plato), 473
scientific pursuit and, 474
Irving, Washington, 251
Brown, Charles Brockden, and, 251
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Irving), 68
Irving, Washington (1783–1859), 474–475
date and place of birth, 474
death of, 475
fame of, 474
“Gotham” and, 475
impact of, 475
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” 474, 475
pseudonym, 474, 475
“Rip Van Winkle,” 474, 475
Salmagundi magazine, 474–475
The Sketch Book, 474, 475
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., 475
“The Spectre Bridegroom,” 475
Tales of a Traveller, 475
Irzykowski, Karol, 395
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Wells), 473–474, 476–477
author of, 476
“Beast People,” 476
ethics of scientific experimentation, 476
film adaptations, 477
literary influences on, 476
Moreau’s laws, 476
plot summary, 476
primary concern of, 476
It (King), 477–478
author of, 477
awards to, 478
Bangor, Maine, and, 477
date published, 477
influence of, 478
Pennywise the Clown, 477, 478
plot summary, 477
popularity of, 478
serial killer John Wayne Gacy, 478
Jackson, Shirley (1916–1965), 479–483, 685
best-known novels of, 36–37
biographies of, 482, 483
