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Roarings from Further Out
Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood
Av Algernon Blackwood, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Häftad, 2019
150 kr
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The reputation of early-twentieth century British writer Algernon Blackwood currently resides with his two novellas `The Willows' (1907) and `The Wendigo' (1910), and with good reason. They are perfectly crafted horror tales that convey feelings of mystical otherness; they hint at the possibility …
Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins
Av Wilkie Collins, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Inbunden, 2024
195 kr
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Vengeful spirits, mysterious revenants and haunted objects stalk the pages of Wilkie Collins' short fiction, and yet his reputation as a sensation and detective novelist has long overshadowed his inventive contributions to the ghost story genre. Drawing from across the writer's career, Xavier …
Visions of the Vampire
Two Centuries of Immortal Tales
Av Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, Sorcha Ni Fhlainn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
220 kr
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The vampire is one of the great enemies of humanity, a nightmarish figure who feeds on the living in order to sustain themselves. Born from ancient folklore, writers in the nineteenth century gave form to the vampire as we know it today. Still haunting our subconscious in the twentieth century, a …
Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson
Av William Hope Hodgson, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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A splash of something huge resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. This new selection offers the most chilling and unsettling of Hodgson's short fiction, from encounters with abominations at sea to fireside tales of otherworldly …
Gothic Tales of Sheridan Le Fanu
Av J. T. Sheridan Le Fanu, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Inbunden, 2020
215 kr
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Sheridan Le Fanu was lauded by contemporaries such as M. R. James for his innovations in the ghost story and mystery genres, and his mastery of conjuring atmosphere and driving stories to thrilling narrative crescendos. And yet, aside from some regularly anthologised short stories and novellas, …
Body Horror
Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology
Häftad, 2026
207 kr
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The subgenre of body horror, associated with directors such as David Cronenberg and Coralie Fargeat, depicts the human body’s susceptibility to disease and change. Preoccupied with anatomy, pathology, and corporeality, it portrays contagion, mutilation, mutation, and metamorphosis. As organs, …
Horror Film and Affect
Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
Inbunden, 2016
2759 kr
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This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies – to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in …
Gothic Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
Av H. P. Lovecraft, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Inbunden, 2018
200 kr
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H. P. Lovecraft is best known for his tales of cosmic horror, in which unnameable nightmares torment the limits of human consciousness. This mastery of weird and unspeakable terror is underpinned by the writer's sizeable contribution to Gothic fiction. This new collection of Lovecraft's stories is …
Burial of the Rats
And Other Tales of the Macabre by Bram Stoker
Av Bram Stoker, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Inbunden, 2023
215 kr
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'I knew the site of the hut and the hill behind it up which I had rushed, and in the flickering glow the eyes of the rats still shone with a sort of phosphorescence.'Beyond the genre-defining influence of Dracula, Bram Stoker was also a master of the short story form. This new collection of the …
Digital Horror
Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon
Av Xavier Aldana Reyes, Linnie Blake
E-bok, 2015
2151 kr
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In recent years, the ways in which digital technologies have come to shape our experience of the world has been an immensely popular subject in the horror film genre. Contemporary horror cinema reflects and exploits the anxieties of our age in its increasing use of hand-held techniques and in its …
Digital Horror
Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon
Av Xavier Aldana Reyes, Linnie Blake
E-bok, 2015
1982 kr
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In recent years, the ways in which digital technologies have come to shape our experience of the world has been an immensely popular subject in the horror film genre. Contemporary horror cinema reflects and exploits the anxieties of our age in its increasing use of hand-held techniques and in its …
Contemporary Body Horror
Häftad, 2024
300 kr
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'Body horror', a horror subgenre concerned with transformation, loss of control and the human body's susceptibility to disease, infection and external harm, has moved into the mainstream to become one of the greatest repositories of biopolitical discourse. Put simply, body horror acts out the power …
Contemporary Body Horror
Inbunden, 2024
967 kr
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'Body horror', a horror subgenre concerned with transformation, loss of control and the human body's susceptibility to disease, infection and external harm, has moved into the mainstream to become one of the greatest repositories of biopolitical discourse. Put simply, body horror acts out the power …
Spanish Gothic
National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation
Inbunden, 2017
1388 kr
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This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siècle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and literary booms of the 1970s and 2000s. With …
Spanish Gothic
National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation
E-bok, 2017
1939 kr
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This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siècle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and literary booms of the 1970s and 2000s. With …
Gothic Cinema
Inbunden, 2020
2144 kr
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Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim Burton.But what is Gothic cinema? Is the …
Gothic Cinema
Häftad, 2020
446 kr
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Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim Burton.But what is Gothic cinema? Is the …
Horror Film and Affect
Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
Häftad, 2018
754 kr
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This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies – to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in …
Gothic Cinema
E-bok, 2019
552 kr
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Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim Burton. But what is Gothic cinema? Is the …
Gothic Cinema
E-bok, 2019
552 kr
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Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim Burton. But what is Gothic cinema? Is the …
Horror Film and Affect
Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
E-bok, 2016
858 kr
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This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies – to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in …
Horror Film and Affect
Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
E-bok, 2016
858 kr
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This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies – to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in …
Twenty-First-Century Gothic
An Edinburgh Companion
Av Maisha Wester, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Inbunden, 2019
2521 kr
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A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial GothicKey FeaturesCovers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic traditionConsitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, …
Twenty-First-Century Gothic
An Edinburgh Companion
Av Maisha Wester, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Häftad, 2021
430 kr
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A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial GothicKey FeaturesCovers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic traditionConsitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, …
Graveyard Gothic
Av Eric Parisot, David McAllister m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1411 kr
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Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media including …
Graveyard Gothic
Av Eric Parisot, David McAllister m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
427 kr
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Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media including …
