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12 produkter
Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy
Av Francis Stevens, Gary Hoppenstand
Häftad, 2004
283 kr
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Slithering from these pages are never-before-collected tales of suspense and wonder by the woman who invented modern-day dark fantasy: A man goes quietly to bed aboard the doomed Lusitania and awakens on a magical South Pacific Island just as the passenger liner is torpedoed. In a future where …
Spirits of Earth
The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes
Av University of Wisconsin Press, Ray B. Browne m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
283 kr
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Between A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds - including the world's largest known bird effigy - at the center of effigy-building culture in and around Madison, Wisconsin. These huge earthworks, …
Early Thrillers of Dean Koontz
Essays on the Evolution of a Writer, 1966-1997
Av Gary Hoppenstand, Garyn G. Roberts
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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Born into poverty with an abusive home life, Dean Koontz found a respite in books. As he began a writing career in the late 1960s, Koontz began injecting the dark experiences of his own life into his literature, and autobiography became a central thematic element of his thrillers, science fiction …
Clive Barker's Short Stories
Imagination as Metaphor in the Books of Blood and Other Works
Häftad, 2013
429 kr
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Unlike many horror fiction and fantasy writers, Clive Barker is true to the literary heritage of the genre. Though aware of the importance of entertainment in his writing, he embraces the traditional formulas of horror fiction and builds upon them, all the while alluding to the works of Dante, Poe, …
Defective Detective in the Pulp
Av Hoppenstand, Gary Hoppenstand
Häftad, 1983
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
186 kr
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Gothic World of Stephen King
Landscape of Nightmares
Av University of Wisconsin Press, Gary Hoppenstand
Inbunden, 1987
348 kr
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Stephen King's popularity lies in his ability to reinterpret the standard Gothic tale in new and exciting ways. Through his eyes, the conventional becomes unconventional and wonderful. King thus creates his own Gothic world and then interprets it for us. This book analyzes King's interpretations …
Pulp Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s
Inbunden, 2013
1356 kr
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Explores the ""weird"" and diverse fiction of popular pulp writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, A. Merritt, as well as pulp magazines such as Weird Tales.From their origin at the end of the nineteenth century to their decline in the 1950s, ""pulp"" magazines …
Perilous Escapades
Dimensions of Popular Adventure Fiction
Häftad, 2018
560 kr
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Adventure fiction is one of the easiest narrative forms to recognize but one of the hardest to define because of its overlap with many other genres. This collection of essays attempts to characterize adventure fiction through the exploration of key elements--such as larger-than-life characters and …
Stephen King
Inbunden, 2010
1251 kr
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Stephen King has been terrorizing America ever since Carrie was published in 1974. For nearly forty years, he has fed our imaginations with a panoply of spooks and monsters, from telekinetic teenagers, vampires, and malevolent clowns to space aliens, crazed fans, haunted hotels, and our own …
American Thriller
Inbunden, 2014
1356 kr
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An exploration of the authors and literary works that identify with the American thriller, this volume examines the prominent themes and stories. It presents a variety of new essays on this genre in which “ordinary” heroes are faced with an enemy set on destroying them or something treasured such …
Graphic Novel
Av Salem Press, Gary Hoppenstand
Inbunden, 2014
1356 kr
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Critical Insights: The Graphic Novel offers an examination and analysis of the contemporary graphic novel as literature. Specific attention will be paid to the use of narrative genre in the graphic novel (e.g. the superhero graphic novel, the crime narrative graphic novel, the horror graphic novel, …
