Horror Literature through History
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education of, 677
examples of Poe’s artistic, 679
“Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” 107
“The Fall of the House of Usher,” 81, 361–363
as a foster child of John and Frances Allan, 677–678
Gothic horror literature as trite, 679
Gothicism, 678
Graham’s Magazine, 680
Griswold, Rufus W., on, 680
the grotesque, use of, 405
“The Haunted Palace,” 81
heresy of the didactic, 109
The Journal of Julius Rodman, 680
“Ligeia,” 81, 549–551
“The Masque of the Red Death,” 69–70, 590–592
“MS. Found in a Bottle,” 678
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” 680
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 680
overview of, 81–83
parents of, 677
Paulding, James Kirke, and, 680
“The Philosophy of Composition,” 82
Poe, Henry, 678
Poe, Rosalie, 677
Poe, Virginia, 678, 680
Poe, William Henry Leonard, 677
poverty and, 676
prize competitions, 678
on Radcliffe, Ann, 697
“The Raven,” 81, 83, 678
reputation of, 680
Saturday Visiter competition, 678
siblings of, 677
significance of, 676
“Some Words with a Mummy,” 627
at the Southern Literary Messenger, 679
on the sublime, 783
“Tales of the Folio Club,” 679
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, preface of, 680
Tamerlane and other Poems, 678
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” 109, 685, 807, 808–809
“Ulalume,” 678
“Usher,” 165
on the value of short fiction, 644
at West Point, 678
poetry
on decay and ruination, 77
“Graveyard” school of poetry, 21
horror in the eighteenth century, 21
Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 548
“The Listeners” (de la Mare), 560–562
Long, Frank Belknap, 564
of meditations on the picturesque, 77
memorial poetry, 77
Old French narrative, 12
See also Gothic poetry
Polanski, Roman, 716
Polidori, John
“The Vampyre,” 75, 77, 129, 158, 539, 616
Villa Diodati ghost story competition, 68
Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations (1823; 3 volumes), 86
Porphyria’s Lover (Browning), 79–80
possession and exorcism, 681–683
ambiguity of possession, 682
authority and power of, 681
The Beetle (Marsh), 682
The Case Against Satan (Russell), 682
within the Catholic Church, 681
criticism of exorcism, 681
episcopal approval for exorcism rites, 681
exorcism defined, 681
The Exorcist (Blatty), 682
in film, 682
“The Great God Pan” (Machen), 682
Major Exorcism rite, 681
manifestation of demonic possession, 681
modern media attention to, 681
possession as a regular occurring theme in horror, 682
Rituale Romanum, 681
The Turn of the Screw (James), 682
Zofloya the Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century (Darce), 682
postapocalyptic narrative, 44
Potocki, Count Jan
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, 373, 587–588
Potter, J. K., 119
Prest, Thomas Peckett
Varney the Vampire, 26, 75, 158, 817–818
Price, Robert M., 118
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Austen and Grahame-Smith), 44, 872
Priestley, Chris, 63
Mister Creecher, 63
Tales of Terror, 172
Pritchard, Hesketh and Kate, 651
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Hogg), 683–684
Calvinism, 683
“Editor’s Narrative,” 683
plot summary, 683
psychological horror and, 683
rediscovery of, 684
sheep joke, 684
significance of, 26, 684
“Pseudomythology,” 307
psychological horror, 684–687
critical perspectives that unite psychological horror with something else, 686
definition of, 684
in film, 686
literary history of, 684–685
recent examples of, 685
stories of Poe and, 685
subdivisions of horror, 684
“The Tell-Tale Heart” (Poe), 685
The Turn of the Screw (James), 685
“The Yellow Wall-Paper” (Gilman), 685
“Young Goodman Brown” (Hawthorne), 685
psychological monologues, 79
Ptacek, Kathryn, 398
pulp fiction, 31
pulp horror, 172, 687–688
Argosy, 687
definition of, 687
Detective-Dragnet, 687
Dime Mystery Magazine, 687, 688
as formulated, 687, 688
Grand Guignol Theater, 687
horror as “off-trail,” 687
Horror Stories, 688
menace detective fiction, 687
“Men’s Sweat” magazines, 688
sex and sadism, 688
Steeger, Harry, 687
Terrill, Rogers, on writing formula, 687–688
Terror Tales, 688
Weird Menace, 688
Weird Menace formula, 688
Weird Tales, 687
Queneau, Raymond, 701
Quilter, Harry, 578
Quinn, Seabury (1889–1969), 689–692
birthplace of, 689
case studies of Jules de Grandin, 690–691
Christmas trilogy “Roads,” 690
conventional wisdom about, 689
de Grandin’s adventures, 651, 689, 690–691
The Devil’s Bride, 689
“The Devil’s Rosary,” 691
ethics and, 690–691
first professional fiction sale, 689
full name of, 689
“The Gentle Werewolf,” 690
“Glamour,” 690
“The Globe of Memories,” 689
“The Golden Spider,” 690
“The Isle of Missing Ships,” 690
Is the Devil a Gentleman? 689, 690
literary output of, 689
Lovecraft on, 689
on lycanthropy, 689–690
“Masked Ball,” 690
“Mortmain,” 690
Night Creatures, 689
“The Phantom Farmhouse,” 689
repeating situations, 691
on social injustice, 690
“Stealthy Death,” 690
tableaux creation, 691
“There Are Such Things,” 690
“The Thing in the Fog,” 690
“Two Shall Be Born,” 690
“Uncanonized,” 690
Quiroga, Horacio (1878–1937), 692–693
best compilation of Quiroga’s tales, 692
celluloid horror stories, 692
death of, 693
“The Decapitated Chicken,” 692
English translations of, 692
“The Feather Pillow,” 692
History of a Troubled Love, 692
Jungle Tales, 692
magical realism, 692
Past Love, 692
significance of, 692–693
Tales of Love, Madness, and Death, 692
“The Vampire,” 692
Radcliffe, Ann (1764–1823), 695–697
; birth date of, 695
Brontë sisters and, 697
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, 696
chronology of, 695
death of, 696
distinction between terror and horror, 74
female Gothic, 696
Gothic Romance, 62
the haunted house story and, 419
her place in the history of horror fiction, 696
her response to Matthew Lewis, 696
influence of, 23, 26, 697
The Italian, 614, 696
on Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 547
literary output of, 695
moralistic “terror,” 23
Mysteries of Udolpho, 23, 144, 614, 630–632, 696
in opposition to The Monk (Lewis), 614
Poe, Edgar Allan, on, 697
poetry of meditations on the picturesque, 77
popularity of, 695
Radcliffean Gothic, 697
on religious and otherworldly matters, 145
The Romance of the Forest, 696
Rossetti, Christina, and, 696, 697
A Sicilian Romance, 696
significance of, 696–697
“On the Supernatural in Poetry,” 99, 696
on terror and horror, 790–791
use of “the explained supernatural,” 73
Rampo, Edogawa, 167
Rank, Otto
“The Double,” 337
Ratcliffe Highway murders, 78
The Rats (Herbert), 697–698
date published, 697
film adaptation of, 698
Herbert, James, 697
inspiration for, 697
plot of, 697, 698
signature style and themes, 697
significance of, 698
working-class focus of, 698
“The Rats in the Walls” (Lovecraft), 698–700
comparison to “The Fall of the House of Usher,” 698, 699
date published/written, 698
date written, 698
Lovecraft, H. P., 698
plot summary, 699
Ray, Jean (1887–1964), 700–702
birthplace of, 701
books of, 701
film adaptations, 701
first book of, 701
first English edition of his work, 701
imprisonment of, 701
“The Mainz Psalter,” 701
Malpertuis, 585–587, 701
parents of, 701
pseudonyms of, 700, 701
Queneau, Raymond, and, 701
Resnais, Alain, 701
“The Shadowy Street,” 700, 701
style of, 344, 700
Raynal, Frédérick, 121
“The Reach” (King), 702, 702–703
appraisal of, 702
Different Season and, 702
first publication of, 702
plot summary, 702
“The Recrudescence of Imray”/“The Return of Imray (Kipling),” 703–704
denouement of, 704
first publication in American, 703
the imperial Gothic and, 703
Kipling, Rudyard, 703
plot of, 703
setting of, 703
Reddit.com, 114
The Red Tree (Kiernan), 42
Rees, Celia, 170–171
The Stone Testament, 172
Reeve, Clara, 73, 419
the Reformation, 15
religion
in the early modern era, 14–15
eschatological writing, 51–52
eschatology, 51, 55
loss of religious faith, 19
mystery plays, 52
Trinity Apocalypse, 52
religion, horror, and the supernatural, 143–148
American Gothic, 144–145
American Jewish Gothic stories, 147
Anglicanism, 144
Asian horror, 147
Augustine of Hippo, 143
authors’ perspectives on the representation of the religious and supernatural, 145
Barker, Clive, 147
the body and, 146
Calvinism, 145
The Castle of Otranto (Walpole), 144
Catholicism, 143, 144
conclusion concerning, 147
Dante Alighieri, 143–144
emancipatory project of the Enlightenment and, 144
evil invasion of the female body, 146
Frankenstein (Shelley), 144
Gothic mainstreaming, 145
Harvest Home (Tryon), 146
Herbert, James, 147
horror as a subgenre of Gothic literature, 146
Islamic horror stories, 147
the Jumbie, 146
King, Stephen, 147
Koontz, Dean, 147
Machen, Arthur, 145
Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin), 144
The Monk (Lewis), 144
Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe), 144
overview of, 143–144
Paradise Lost (Milton), 144
possession and dispossession, 146
Protestantism, 143
Protestant sects and Puritan paranoia, 145
racism and anti-Semitism, 146
The Religion (Condé), 146
religious imagination, 143–144
roots of horror literature, 143
scientific materialism, threat of, 145
Song of Kali (Simmons), 146–147
Spiritualism, 145
splatterpunk movement, 147
Victorian occult horror story and supernatural tale, 145
Vodou, 146
Wieland (Brown), 144–145
Wilde, Oscar, 145
the zombie, 146
Rémy, Nicholas
Daemonolatreia, 466
Renard, Maurice
The Hands of Orlac, 411–412
significance of, 411
speculative fiction, 411
Republic (Plato), 473
The Return (de la Mare), 704–705
Capgras syndrome, 704
date published, 704
date revised, 704
Freudian psychology, 704
nondualistic body and mind, 705
plot summary, 704
self-loathing, 705
The Revenger’s Tragedy (Middleton), 17
revenge tragedies, 15–17
Reyes, Xavier Aldana
Horror: A Literary History (2016), 76
Reynolds, Kimberley, 169, 170
Rice, Anne (1941–), 705–709
birthplace of, 705
characters of, 708
Christian fiction, 706
existentialism and, 708
first-person point of view, 706, 707, 708
historical background of her stories, 707
husband of, 705
Interview with the Vampire, 119, 139, 162, 163, 471–473
Lives of the Mayfair Witches series, 707, 708
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned, 628
negotiating identity, 706
New Tales of the Vampires, 707
novels by, 706t
pseudonyms, 705, 706
Ramses in The Mummy, 708
Reuben in the Wolf Gift Chronicles, 708
sensuality and horror of monstrosity, 708
style of, 706
the sympathetic vampire, 707–708
themes and atmospheres in her writing, 705
The Vampire Chronicles, 139, 162, 706–707
The Vampire Lestat, 707
The Wolf Gift Chronicles, 707
Richmond Park Academy, London, pupils of, 172
Richter, Jean Paul, 337
“Ringing the Changes” (Aickman), 709–710
first publication of, 709
folk horror movement in British cinema, 709
Freudian linking of sex and death, 709
plot summary, 709
radio play versions of, 710
television adaptation of, 710
Thal, Herbert Van,
and, 709
“The Rocking-Horse Winner” (Lawrence), 710–711
Asquith, Cynthia, and, 710
date written, 710
Davies, Rosemary Reeve, 710
film adaptations, 711
genesis of the tale, 710
haunted child trope, 710
plot summary, 710–711
publication of, 710
Rodenbach, Georges, 344
Rohmer, Sax (1883–1959), 711–712
British thriller school of mystery fiction, 711
Brood of the Witch-Queen, 712
death of, 712
The Dream Detective, 712
Dr. Fu Manchu character, 711–712
Egyptianthemed horror, 712
The Green Eyes of Bast, 712
Moris Klaw character, 651
“The Mysterious Mummy,” 711
The Orchard of Tears, 712
The Romance of Sorcery, 712
Wulfhiem, 712
romance narratives (early), 12–13
Roman Empire, 3
romanticism and dark romanticism, 712–715
association of the unconscious mind with nature, 714
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 714
concept of the unconscious mind, 714
current status of, 715
dark romanticism defined, 713
Dark Romantic writing, 714
the Decadents, 714–715
distinguish between romanticism and dark romanticism, 713
the Enlightenment, 712–713
French Revolution, 713
“The Great God Pan” (Machen), 714
important Romantic authors, 713–714
influence of romanticism, 713
modern western horror fiction and dark romanticism, 714
romanticism defined, 713
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 714
Wuthering Heights (Brontë), 714
“The Yellow Wall-Paper” (Gilman), 714
Romero, George, 96
Night of the Living Dead, 40, 44, 119, 871
Rosemary’s Baby (Levin), 715–717
Castle, William, 716
compared with The Exorcist, 359
date of first publication, 715
evil invasion of the female body, 146
film adaptation, 715
film adaptations, 716
impact of, 117, 715
Levin, Ira, 715
plot summary, 715–716
Polanski, Roman, 716
sequel to, 716
success of, 716
witch’s coven reimagined, 39
Rosicrucian romances, 29
Rossetti, Christina, 696, 697
Ruskin, John, 405
Russell, Ken
Gothic, 129
Russell, Ray (1924–1999), 717–719
awards to, 718
The Case Against Satan, 682, 717, 718
Castle, William, 716, 731
as fiction editor for Playboy, 717, 718
film projects of, 717
Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Tales of Ray Russell, 718
The Incubus, 467
Incubus, 717
Sagittarius,” 730
“Sanguinarius,” 730
“Sardonicus,” 717, 730–732
Ruth, Greg, 169
Rymer, James Malcolm, 159, 817–818