by Matt Cardin
The Bird’s Nest, 481
Campbell, Ramsey, on, 269
children’s stories of, 481
death of, 479
education of, 480
Hangsaman, 481
the haunted house story and, 419
The Haunting of Hill House, 34, 71, 116, 139, 420–422, 481, 685
husband of, 479
Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 479, 480
legacy of, 479
Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings, 482
Life Among the Savages, 480
“The Lottery,” 34, 36, 479, 480
“Louisa, Please Come Home,” 480
memory of, 482
Merrell, Susan Scott, on, 482
“My Life with R. H. Macy,” 480
North Bennington, Vermont, 480, 482
“One Ordinary Day with Peanuts,” 480
Oppenheimer, Judy, on, 482
overview of, 36–37
Patchwork Girl, 63
previously unpublished works, 482
Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson (Oppenheimer), 482
Raising Demons, 480
The Road Through the Wall, 480
Shirley: A Novel (Merrell), 482–483
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Franklin), 483
Shirley Jackson Award, 483
“The Summer People,” 36, 480
The Sundial, 481
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, 481–482
The Witchcraft of Salem Village, 480–481
Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
“The Monkey’s Paw” (Jacobs), 615
James, Henry (1843–1916), 483–485
Elkins, Charles L., on, 483
“The Ghostly Rental,” 484
The Ghostly Tales of Henry James (Edel), 483
on ghost stories, 68
on the Gothic horror short story, 69
“The Jolly Corner,” 484
literary output of, 483
“Owen Wingrave,” 484
“The Real Right Thing,” 484
“The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” 484
“Sir Edmund Orme,” 484
The Turn of the Screw, 420, 484, 682, 685, 763
James, M. R. (1862–1936), 485–488
academia and, 485
Ash-Tree Press and, 155
audio adaptations of James’s stories, 488
British Film Institute’s Ghost Stories for Christmas (2013), 488
Campbell, Ramsey, 265, 269
“Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book” (1895), 485
Casting the Runes, 280–282
The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James, 485
The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James (Joshi), 485
“Count Magnus,” 487
critical opinion of, 485
education of, 485
The Five Jars, 488
full name of, 485
ghost stories and, 67
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 485
hallmark of, 30
“The Haunted Dolls’ House,” 487
Lovecraft, H. P., and, 487
Macfarlane, Robert, on, 487–488
Madame Cowl’s Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery, 486
“The Malice of Inanimate Objects,” 487
McBryde, James, and, 485–486
“The Mezzotint,” 485, 486, 487
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 485
occult detective fiction, 486–487
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad,” 485, 486
“The Rose Garden,” 487
The Story of a Troll-Hunt, 486
television film adaptations of James’s stories, 488
A Thin Ghost and Others, 485
“The Treasure of Abbot Thomas,” 487
“Two Doctors,” 487
“A View from a Hill,” 487
“A Warning to the Curious,” 487
A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories, 485
writing style of, 485
James I (King), 15
Jefferies, Richard
After London, 55
Jentsch, Ernst, 805
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Stoker), 489–490
as a conventional Gothic work, 489–490
doppelgängers, 489–490
Egyptological content of, 490
film adaptations, 489
film adaptations of, 490
plot summary, 489
“Powers—Old and New,” 490
settings, 490
Stoker, Bram, 489
John Silence: Physician Extraordinary (Blackwood), 490–492
Blackwood, Algernon, 491, 492
“Camp of the Dog,” 492
the character of Silence, 491
date published, 491
Nash, Eveleigh, and, 491–492
“Nemesis of Fire,” 492
Order of the Golden Dawn, 492
original intention for, 491
popularity of, 492
“A Psychical Invasion,” 492
the psychic doctor, 491
“Secret Worship,” 492
“A Victim of Higher Space,” 491–492
Jones, Darryl
Horror: A Thematic History in Film and Fiction, 76
Jones, Ernest
On the Nightmare, 342
Joshi, S. T. (1958–), xxx, 492–493
birthplace of, 492
on Campbell, Ramsey and, 267
The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, 485
full name of, 492
on “The Great God Pan,” 400
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, 492–493
on Jackson, Shirley, 37
on James, M. R., 487
on Klein, T. E. D., 518
on Lovecraft, H. P., 570
The Lovecraft Annual: New Scholarship on H. P. Lovecraft, 493
on The Other (Tryon), 661
on the public’s faith for horror, 117
reputation of, 492
Studies in the Fantastic, 493
Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, 76, 493
work of, 492, 493
Joyce, Graham (1954–2014), 494–495
awards to, 494
death of, 494
The House of Lost Dreams, 494
Nottingham Trent University, 494
poetry and, 494
Requiem, 494
Smoking Poppy, 494
25 Years in the Word Mines, 494
the Jumbie, 146
Jung, Carl, 610, 738
Kafka, Franz (1883–1924), 497–499
Brod, Max, 498
The Castle, 498
death of, 497, 498
Gregor Samsa’s metamorphosis, 497
influence of, 167, 498–499
Kafkaesque surreality, 498
“The Metamorphosis,” 497–498
“In the Penal Colony,” 497
“A Report to an Academy,” 497
The Trial, 498, 499
Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804), 645, 783
Karloff, Boris, 126, 136, 138, 141, 299, 377, 617
Kavan, Anna
Ice, 166
Keats, John
Lamia, 158
vampire fiction, 157
Keene, Brian (1967–), 499–500
awards to, 499
birthplace of, 499
comic books and, 499
Earthworm Gods series, 499
representative titles, 499
reputation of, 499
The Rising, 499
Keller, David H., 190
Kellett, Arnold, 596
Ketchum, Jack (1946–), 500–502
awards to, 501, 502
“The Box,” 501
Closing Time, 501
common theme in his work, 501
film adaptations, 501
The Girl Next Door, 501
as the “godfather of splatterpunk,” 5
02
Gone, 501
Hide and Seek, 501
The Lost, 501
Masks, 501
McKee, Lucky, and, 501
Off Season, 500–501
Peaceable Kingdom, 501
pseudonym of, 500
reputation of, 500
Right to Life, 501
She Wakes, 501
splatterpunk movement, 500, 502
Triage, 501
The Woman, 501–502
Kharms, Daniil, 344
Kiernan, Caitlín R. (1964–), 502–507
Alabaster comic book series, 502
authors and works recommended by, 507
awards to, 504
characteristics of, 503
The Dreaming comic book series, 502
The Drowning Girl, 345–346, 503
“feminizing of the weird,” 503
Gaiman, Neil, on, 503
her approach to her writing, 503
imaginative identification and empathy, 503
influences on, 503, 506–507
on the Internet and writing, 505
interview with, 504–507
Low Red Moon, 345
“Persephone,” 503
The Red Tree, 345, 503
scientific background of, 503
Silk, 345, 503
Sirenia Digest, 505
the term “horror” and, 42, 109, 503, 505–506
VanderMeer, Jeff, on, 503
work of, 502
King, Stephen (1947–), 508–512
awards to, 508
The Bachman Books, 510-511
Black House, 511
The Body, 510
Carrie, 508–509
on childhood and creativity, 510
“Children of the Corn,” 510
connective mythology of, 509
“The Crimson King,” 509
Cujo, 60
Danse Macabre, 23, 509, 638
The Dark Half, 338, 510
The Dark Tower, 318–319, 509, 511
date and place of birth, 508
devils and demons, 334, 335
Different Seasons, 511, 702
Doctor Sleep, 511
Dolores Claiborne, 338
Under the Dome, 105, 511
Dreamcatcher, 511
End of Watch, 511
The Eyes of the Dragon, 611
film adaptations, 510–511
Firestarter, 104
Flagg, Randall, 509
on Ghost Story (Straub), 384
“The Glass Elevator,” 508
“The Great God Pan” (Machen), 401
The Green Mile, 509
The Gunslinger, 119
on Hell House, 430
on Herbert, James, 431
Hill, Joe, 435, 511
his focus on writers, 510
on The House Next Door (Siddons), 447
imaginative capacity and resilience of children, 510
influences on, 509
It, 477–478
on Ketchum, Jack, 386
King, Owen, 511
Lovecraftian influences on, 509
on Matheson, Richard, 462
Misery, 611–612, 685
The Mist, 510
Needful Things, 335
Night Shift, 512, 637–638
Pennywise the Clown, 511
popularity of, 509, 513
public interest in horror, 153
on The Purple Cloud (Shiel), 747
Rage, 511
“The Reach,” 702–703
religion, horror, and the supernatural, 147
Riding the Bullet, 156
‘Salem’s Lot, 117, 384–385, 508, 509, 510
on “Sardonicus” (Russell), 730
the “scary child,” 510
The Shawshank Redemption, 511
The Shining, 338, 509, 510, 685, 748–749
significance of, 35, 40, 42, 511
Skeleton Crew, 119
The Stand, 104, 508
Stand by Me, 510
on Straub, Peter, 776
Strengell, Heidi, on, 510
The Talisman, 511
television adaptations of his works, 142
The Tommyknockers, 104
University of Maine Library and, 508
writing style of, 509–510
The King in Yellow (Chambers), 512–514
Blish, James, and, 514
Chambers’s oblique descriptions of the title play, 512
Derleth, August, and, 514
“In the Court of the Dragon,” 513
“The Demoiselle D’Ys,” 513
“The Fates,” 513
importance of, 512
interconnected stories of, 512
Lovecraft, H. P., and, 512
“The Mask,” 513
“The Repairer of Reputations,” 513
Silverberg, Robert, and, 514
terms used in, 512, 513
True Detective HBO television series, 514
“The Yellow Sign,” 513
Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936), 514–516
“The City of Dreadful Night,” 515
The Jungle Book, 514
Just So Stories, 514
“The Lost Legion,” 516
“The Man Who Would Be King,” 514
“The Mark of the Beast,” 515
the Nobel Prize for Literature, 514
“The Phantom ’Rickshaw” (Kipling), 670–671
“The Recrudescence of Imray”/“The Return of Imray,” 703–704
“The Story of Muhammad Din,” 515
“The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes,” 515–516
“They,” 795
“Thrown Away,” 515
“By Word of Mouth,” 515
Kirk, Russell (1918–1994), 516–517
“Balgrummo’s Hell,” 517
“Behind the Stumps,” 517
birthplace of, 517
Catholicism, 516
conservatism of, 516
education of, 517
Enemies of Permanent Things, 516
Lord of the Hollow Dark, 517
main interest of, 517
number of ghost stories written, 517
The Old House of Fear, 517
reputation of, 516
“Saviourgate,” 516–517
“There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding,” 516, 793–794
“The Watchers at the Strait Gate,” 516
Klein, T. E. D. (1947–), 517–519
awards to, 518
“Black Man with a Horn,” 518
Campbell, Ramsey, on, 270
The Ceremonies, 60, 284–287, 518
“Children of the Kingdom,” 518
Dark Gods, 284, 518
“Dr. Van Helsing’s Handy Guide to Ghost Stories,” 518
eco-horror, 60
“The Events at Poroth Farm,” 517–518
fame of, 284
full name of, 517
Joshi, S. T., on, 518
literary horror history and, 285
“Nadelman’s God,” 518
Nighttown, 518
praise for, 517
Raising Goosebumps for Fun and Profit, 518
Reassuring Tales, 518
Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine and, 518
Trauma film, 518
See also Dark Gods (Klein)
Kneale, Nigel (1922–2006), 519–520
awards to, 520
“The Calculation of M’Bambwe,” 519
The Creature, 520
“Enderby and the Sleeping Beauty,” 519
The Entertainer, 520
First Men in the Moon, 520
full name of, 519
“Jeremy in the Wind,” 519
Look Back in Anger, 520
“Minuke,” 519
“Oh Mirror, Mirror,” 519
“The Patter of Little Feet,” 519
“Peg,” 519
“The Pond,” 519
Quatermass a
nd the Pit, 520
The Quatermass Experiment, 519
Quatermass television plays, 519
The Stone Tape, 520
“The Tarroo-Ushtey,” 519
Tomato Cain, 519
The Witches, 520
The Woman in Black, 520
Koja, Kathe (1960–), 520–522
awards to, 520–521
Bad Brains, 521
birthplace of, 520
The Cipher, 520, 521
fictions for young adults, 521
Guran, Paula, on, 521
Kink, 521
Lieder, Rick, and, 520
“The Neglected Garden,” 522
nerve (immersive ensemble), 521
notable themes of, 521–522
reputation of, 520
sexually transgressive work, 167
Skin, 521
Skin, a passage from, 521
Strange Angels, 521
“Teratisms,” 522
writing style of, 521
Koontz, Dean (1945–), 147, 241, 430, 522–524
birthplace of, 522
Dean Koontz: A Critical Companion (Kotker), 524
early life of, 523
education of, 523
Eyes, Twilight, 523–524
Fear Nothing, 524
film adaptations, 524
his versatility as a popular writer, 523
message to his readers, 524
as a novelist of thrillers, 671–672
overview of his work, 522
pseudonyms of, 523
Seize the Night, 524
Star Quest, 523
Ticktock, 523
transcendentalism concept, 523
use of “unexpected juxtapositions,” 523
Watchers, 524
work across genre boundaries, 523
Kostova, Elizabeth Johnson
The Historian, 437–439
Kotker, Joan G.
Dean Koontz: A Critical Companion, 524
Kuttner, Henry (1915–1958), 525–527
“The Black Kiss,” 525
“Call Him Demon,” 526
collaborations of, 525
“Compliments of the Author,” 526
contributions to Weird Tales, 525
“The Devil We Know,” 526
“The Eater of Souls,” 525
“The Graveyard Rats,” 525
Hammond, Paul, 525
“Housing Problem,” 526
“Hunger in the Dark,” 525
“I, the Vampire,” 525
“It Walks by Night,” 525
lost world fantasies, 526
“Masquerade,” 526
Moore, C. L., 525
Padgett, Lewis, 525
pseudonyms, 525
“Quest of the Starstone,” 525
“The Salem Horror,” 525
“The Secret of Kralitz,” 525
“A Skull Has No Ears,” 525
“Threshold,” 526
“Thunder in the Dawn,” 525
weird tales of, 526
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Hearn), 527–528
“The Dream of Akinosuke,” 527
film adaptation, 528
Hearn, Lafcadio, 527
“Jikiniki,” 527
malevolent spirits, 527
“Mujina,” 527
“Rokuro-Kubi,” 527
title of, 527
