Horror Literature through History
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St. Clair, Henry, 86
steampunk, 608
Steeger, Harry, 687
Sterling, George, 756
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894), 28, 334, 768–770
The Amateur Emigrant, 769
birthplace of, 769
“The Body Snatcher,” 231, 232
burgeoning interest in, 770
childhood of, 769
critical regard for, 768, 770
Cunningham, Alison, and, 769
death of, 770
duality between the appearance of things and their actuality, 769–770
education of, 769
health of, 769
An Island Voyage, 769
literary output of, 769, 770
modernism and, 769
“Olalla,” 768
popularity of, 768, 769, 770
religious ideas and the folklore of Scotland, 769
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 62, 334, 338, 584, 773–776
“Thrawn Janet,” 796
travels of, 769
Stoker, Bram (1847–1912), 770–773
birthplace of, 770
death of, 772
Dracula, 64, 78, 108, 159–160, 162, 339–342, 772
dramatic rights to Dracula, 341
education of, 772
full name of, 770
historical Dracula and, 342
illness of, 771
in the Irish civil service, 772
Irving, Henry, and, 771, 772
The Jewel of Seven Stars, 138, 489–490, 627, 771
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan, and, 539
literary output of, 771, 772
as Lyceum Theatre business manager, 770, 772
meeting Dracula for the first time, 771
at Trinity College, Dublin, 771–772
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 773–776
adaptations of, 775
concept of the double in, 774
cultural impact of, 775
degeneration, 774–775
double or doppelgänger, 338, 774
doubles, doppelgängers, and split selves, 338
fears about the city and, 775
first publication of, 773
gender, sexuality, and the monsters of literary horror, 62
iconic representation of urban horror, 334
inspiration for, 773
“mad scientist” figure, 584
plot summary, 774
popularity of, 774
processes of writing and editing, 774
Showalter, Elaine, on, 775
transformations of Jekyll and Hyde, 773, 798
Strange Doings in Strange Places, 86
Strange Happenings, 86
Straub, Peter (1943–), 776–779
awards to, 776
Blue Rose Trilogy, 777
character of Tim Underhill, 777
childhood trauma, 778
children of, 776
collaborations with Easton, Michael, 777
collaborations with King, Stephen, 777
critical opinion of, 776
current residency of, 776
A Dark Matter, 777
date and place of birth, 776
as an editor, 778
education of, 776
film adaptations, 776–777
first published works of, 776
Floating Dragon, 777
full name of, 776
Ghost Story, 383–385, 776
The Green Woman, 777
influence of jazz on, 778
Interior Darkness: Selected Stories, 778
“The Juniper Tree,” 778
Kiernan, Caitlín R., and, 345
King, Stephen, on, 776
Koko, 777
novels of, 776–777
poetry of, 776
“Pork Pie Hat,” 778
Seafront Press, 776
Shadowland, 777
short stories of, 777–778
significance of, 776
The Skylark, 777
supernatural vocabulary and Christian values, 147
The Talisman, 777
wife of, 776
Strengell, Heidi, 512
Strieber, Whitley (1945–)
Communion, 300–302
Sturgeon, Theodore, 39
Sturgeon, Theodore (1918–1985), 779–782
“Bianca’s Hands,” 780
“Blabbermouth,” 781
“Bright Segment,” 780
The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (1994–2010), 781
“Fluffy,” 781
“The Graveyard Reader,” 781
importance of, 779
“It,” 780
“Killdozer,” 780
monstrous child motif, 780
More Than Human, 779
novels of, 781
“The Perfect Host,” 780
“Prodigy,” 780
“The Professor’s Teddy Bear,” 780
“Shadow, Shadow on the Wall,” 780
“Shottle Bop,” 781
Some of Your Blood, 781
“So Near the Darkness,” 781
“Talent,” 780
“Twink,” 781
“Vengeance Is,” 781
Venus Plus X, 779
“The World Well Lost,” 779
the sublime, 782–784
aesthetics and, 782
in ancient literature, 782
Burke, Edmund, on, 782, 783
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, on, 783
definition of, 782
eighteenth-century thinkers and, 782–783
horror and, 782, 783
in horror criticism, 783
Kant, Immanuel, on, 783
Longinus’s Peri Hypsous, 20
“Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime” (Burke), 782
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (Burke), 73–74, 783
philosophy of existence, 783
Poe, Edgar Allan, on, 783
Romantic philosophy and, 783
significance of, 783
“On the Sublime” (Burke), 782
Supernatural Horror in Literature (Lovecraft), 783
Summa Theologica (Aquinas), 466
Summers, Montague (1880–1948), 784–786
avoidance of his work by researchers, 785
as a Catholic priest, 785
contribution to the critical methodologies used for studying vampires, 785
death of, 785
education of, 784–785
excerpts from his first two books, 784
full name of, 784
important occult works of, 785
prose of, 785
significance of, 784
stigma of, 785
surrealism, 786–787
Breton, Andre, 786
Carrington, Leonora, 786
definition of, 786
Ducornet, Rikki, 786
effects of, 786–787
The Fashionable Tiger (Ferry), 786
fiction and, 786–787
in films, 786
founder of, 786
influences on, 786, 787
The Lost Traveller (Todd), 786
as a method of creation, 786
paintings and, 786
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 402, 403, 539, 794
Swinburne, Algernon, 82
Tales of Other Days (Akerman), 86
Tales of Terror (St. Clair), 86
Tales of the Dead (ed. Utterson), 85
“The Tapestried Chamber” (Scott), 67
Tartt, Donna, 134
Taylor, D. W., 672
Telegraph, The, 172
Tem, Melanie (1949–2015), 789–790
awards to, 789
Blood Moon, 789
closures of, 789
death of, 790
family relationships, 789
“Mama,” 789
novels of, 789
Wilding, 789
The Yellow Wood, 789
Tennyson, Alfred, 81
Terrill, Rogers, 687
Terrors of the Night (Nashe), 15
terror versus horror, 790–792
Dracula, 791
emotional reactions and, 790–791
horror defined, 791
King, Stephen, on, 791
Lovecraft, H. P., and, 791
Radcliffe, Ann, on, 790–791
story structure and, 791
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 791
terror defined, 791
“Witches and Other Night-Fears,” 791
Tessier, Thomas (1947–), 792–793
awards to, 793
current residency of, 792
date and place of birth, 792
education of, 792
The Fates, 792
Finishing Touches, 792
Fogheart, 793
literary output of, 792
The Nightwalker, 792
Phantom, 792
poetry of, 792
Rapture, 792–793
Remorseless, 793
Seafront Press, 776
Secret Strangers, 793
Shockwaves, 792
short fiction of, 792, 793
writing style of, 792
Thacker, Eugene, 46, 747
Thal, Herbert Van, 709
“There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding” (Kirk), 793–794
awards to, 793
Dantesque trilogy, 794
first appearance of, 793
Kirk, Russell, 793–794
Kirk’s heroes and villains, 794
plot summary, 793–794
“They” (Kipling), 795
as an elliptical work, 795
first publication of, 795
inspiration for, 795
Kipling, Rudyard, 795
Maugham, Somerset, on, 795
plot of, 795
Spiritualism, 795
Thomas, Jeffrey, 105
Thomson, Christine Campbell, 87
“Thrawn Janet” (Stevenson), 796
first publication of, 796
Menikoff, Barry, on, 796
plot summary, 796
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 796
Tichbornes curse, 187
timeline of
1900 to 1950 horror, 32t
1900 to 2000 horror, 38t
ancient world horror, 4t
the Brontë sisters, 246t
early modern era horror, 16t
eco-horror, 58–59t
eighteenth century horror, 22t
ghost stories, 1816–1945, 69t
Gothic novels, major, 74t
horror anthologies, 88t
horror comics, 94t
horror literature through history, xxxv–xlviii
Internet age horror, 113t
Machen, Arthur, 578t
Middle Ages horror, 11t
nineteenth century horror, 27t
science fiction and horror (selective), 103–104
small press, specialty, and online horror (selected), 154t
twenty-first century horror, 45t
video (and computer) games horror, 124t
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 16, 17
Todd, Ruthven
The Lost Traveller, 786
Todorov, Tzvetan
on Machen, 400–401, 405
on The Turn of the Screw (James), 802–803
Tolstoy, Leo, xxx
Tor, 154, 157
torture-porn, 149
Townshend, Dale, 73, 168
Trachiniae (Euripides), 5
transformation and metamorphosis, 797–799
biology and, 798
definitions of, 797
difference between, 797
historical, 797
horror fiction and, 798
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” (Ellison), 798
“The Last Feast of Harlequin” (Ligotti), 798
Medieval romance texts, 798
most common type of metamorphosis, 797
One Thousand and One Nights, 797–798
Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE), 797
redemptive transformation of the individual, 798
religious and scientific thinking and, 798
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 798
transformation and horror literature, 797
transformative creatures, 798
transubstantiation, doctrine of, 798
A Treatise of Specters, or, An History of Apparitions (Bromhall), 85
A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind (Prichard), 78
Tremblay, Paul
A Head Full of Ghosts, 113–114, 448
Trilby, 799–800
adaptations of, 800
anti-Semitism, 800
doppelgänger, 800
Du Maurier, Daphne, 799
hypnotism and, 800
influence on Stoker’s Dracula, 800
plot summary, 799
publications of, 799
significance of, 800
Tryon, Thomas
Harvest Home, 146, 661
The Other, 39, 117, 661
Turner, James, 191
The Turn of the Screw (James), 800–803
adaptations of, 803
critical opinions of, 801
first publication of, 800
frame narrative, 800
plot summary, 800–803
Spiritualism and, 763
Todorov, Tzvetan, on, 802–803
Twain, Mark, 269
28 Days Later (2002), 44, 871
The Twilight Zone, 117
The Twilight Zone (television show), 37
the uncanny, 805–807
in cinema, 806
definition of, 805
examples of, 806
Freud, Sigmund, and, 805
Jentsch, Ernst, on, 805
as a key concept of the Gothic genre, 806
Lacan, Jacques, 806
in literary criticism, 805, 806
psychoanalytical feminist philosophers and, 806
“The Sand-man” (Hoffmann) and, 805–806
Universal Pictures, 138, 627–628
University of Maine Library, 510
Unknown fiction, 33, 34
unreliable narrator, 807–809
Booth, Wayne, on, 807
definition of, 807
early uses of, 808
mad narrators, 808–809
spotting of, 808
“The Tell-Tale Heart” (Poe), 807
“Tell-Tale Heart” (Poe) and, 808–809
uses of, 808
Wuthering Heights (Brontë ) and, 808
Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (Joshi), 76, 493
Utterson, Sarah, 85–86
VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), 336
vampire bats, 160
vampire fiction from Dracula to Lestat and beyond, 157–163, 162
Bürger, Gottfried August, 157
Byron, Lord, 157, 158
Carmilla (Le Fanu), 159
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 157
Dark Shadows (1966–1971), 162, 163
Dracula (Stoker), 159–160, 162
Draculas the world over in film, television, and video games, 160–161
In a Glass Darkly (Le Fanu), 159
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 157
I Am Legend (Matheson), 162
Interview with the Vampire (Rice), 162, 163
Keats, John, 157, 158
“The Mysterious Stranger” (Wachsmann), 158
“A Mystery of the Campagna,” 160
new character trait of, 162
Polidori, John, 158
short fiction featuring vampire characters, 162
sympathetic vampire, 162–163
vampire bats, 160
The Vampire Chroni
cles (Rice), 162
vampire renaissance, 162
“The Vampyre” (Polidori), 158
Varney the Vampire: Or, The Feast of Blood, 158
“Vespertilia” character, 160
Villa Diodati ghost story competition, 158
vampires, 811–815
Auerbach, Nina, on, 814
“For Blood Is the Life” (Crawford), 306, 812
Byzantium film, 814
Calmet, Antoine Augustin, 21
Carmilla (Le Fanu), 272–274, 539
Carrion Comfort (Simmons), 274–275
characteristics of literary vampires are consistent across time and place, 811
character of Dracula himself, 811–812
“Christabel” (Coleridge), 158, 296
contemporary women writers and, 813–814
definition of, 339
as embodiments of contagion, 811
epitome of metamorphosis, 814
female vampirism, 64–65, 813
first vampire tale by a woman, 811
in German poetry, 811
“The Giaor” (Byron), 77
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night film, 814
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (Leiber), 386–388
the god Kali, 811
“I, the Vampire” (Kuttner), 525
I Am Legend (Matheson), 43, 107, 162, 461–462, 592
Interview with the Vampire (Rice), 40, 119, 162, 163
I Travel By Night (McCammon), 599
La Morte amoureuse (Clarimonde), 381
Last Train from Perdition (McCammon), 599
“La Vampiresse” (Lee), 541
Les Revenants (Revenants), 370
Le Ville-Vampire, 370
Life Brothers, 814
loathsome title vampire, 812–813
male vampires, 812
“Masquerade” (Kuttner), 526
The Mind Parasites, 609–611
Nosferatu film, 341, 813
penny dreadful and, 811
Some of Your Blood (Sturgeon), 39
soucouyants, 814
Summers, Montague, 784
as a sympathetic individual, 40
Vampire Chronicles (Rice), 139, 162, 706–707
The Vampire Diaries, 142
vampire mothers, 813
vampire of war, 811
vampiric fiction, 119
vampirism-focused fictions, 110
“The Vampyre” (Polidori), 811
Varney the Vampire (Rymer & Prest), 26, 75, 123, 158, 811, 817
as viral infections, 43–44
“Vlad the Impaler,” 811
A Whisper of Blood, 319
“The Vampyre” (Polidori), 68, 75, 77, 129, 616, 815–816
VanderMeer, Ann
The Weird, 166
VanderMeer, Jeff, 46, 105, 633, 816–817
Acceptance, 817
Annihilation, 817
Authority, 817
awards, 817
birth and childhood, 816
Borne, 817
on Cisco, Michael, 292
City of Saints and Madmen, 105, 816
Finch, 816
on Kiernan, Caitlín R., 503
New Weird, 167, 633
Shriek: An Afterword, 816
Southern Reach Trilogy, 105, 817
Veniss Underground, 105
The Weird, 166, 817
Van Helsing (2004), 18