Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why Write About Horror?
What Is Horror Fiction?
American and British Horror Literature Before the Twentieth Century
International Horror
Part One 1901–1939, The Golden Age
Chapter 1 British Writers
The “Classical” Tradition(s)
The Machen Quartet
Breaks with Tradition
Naturalism and the Psychological Ghost Story
Traditionalists and Holdovers
New Voices
The War Years
Voices of the Twenties
The End of the Golden Age
Chapter 2 American Writers
The Great Age of the American Ghost Story
East Coast versus West Coast
The East Coast School
Sexism and Great Age Content
East Coast Membership
The West Coast School
Exceptions
After Weird Tales’ Debut
Chapter 3 Horror in the Pulps
Before Weird Tales
Weird Tales
H. P. Lovecraft
The Weird Tales Crew
What Lovecraft and Weird Tales Wrought, and What They Did Not
Outside of Weird Tales
The Shudder Pulps
The End of Weird Tales’ Golden Age
Chapter 4 Horror in the Mainstream
The Creation of the Mainstream
Before the Great War
America
England
After the War
Chapter 5 Outside the Anglosphere, 1901–1939
Africa
Angola
Lesotho
Nigeria
South Africa
The Americas
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Costa Rica
Cuba
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
Asia
India
China
Indonesia
Japan
Korea
Philippines
Europe
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Italy
Latvia
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia and the Soviet Union
Spain
The Middle East
Egypt
Iran
Turkey
Part Two 1940–1970, Midcentury Frights
Chapter 6 American Writers
Ray Bradbury
Robert Bloch
Richard Matheson
Charles Beaumont
The Group
Fritz Leiber
Midcentury Writers of Horror
One-Shots
Chapter 7 British Writers
The Changing Landscape
The 1940s
The 1950s
The 1960s
Chapter 8 Horror in the Mainstream
The Effects of the War
American Writers
Writers of the United Kingdom
Chapter 9 Horror on the Cheap
Pulps and Digests
Paperbacks
Comics
Chapter 10 Outside the Anglosphere, 1940–1970
Africa
Angola
Congo
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Lesotho
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
South Africa
The Americas
Argentina
Barbados
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Ecuador
Guyana
Mexico
Uruguay
Venezuela
Asia
India
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Philippines
Europe
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
France
Germany
Italy
Portugal
Spain
The Middle East
Israel
Syria
Turkey
Part Three 1971–2000, The Boom Years
Chapter 11 Horror as Big Business
American Best Sellers
The British Response
In the Mainstream
Chapter 12 The Boom and Bust of the 1980s and 1990s
Full-Timers
Part-Timers, Tourists, and Dabblers
RPG Fiction
Chapter 13 Short-Fiction Authors, 1971–2000
From Before the Boom
The 1970s Generation
The 1980s Generation
The 1990s Generation
Chapter 14 Horror for Children and Young Adults
1900–1960
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
Chapter 15 Outsiders Writing Horror
African American Writers
Australian Aboriginal Writers
Latinx Horror
Native American Horror
Queer Horror
Chapter 16 Outside the Anglosphere, 1971–2000
Africa
Congo
Guinea
Kenya
Mauritania
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
South Africa
The Americas
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Guyana
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Québec
Venezuela
Asia
China
India
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Taiwan
Thailand
Europe
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Den mark
Finland
France
Germany
Italy
Latvia
Poland
Russia
Spain
Switzerland
The Middle East
Egypt
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Syria
Turkey
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →