Unutterable Horror · A History of Supernatural Fiction by Joshi, S.T. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Copyright Page Contents Volume 1: From Gilgamesh to the End of the Nineteenth Century Preface I. Introduction II. Anticipations

i. Supernaturalism in Greek Literature ii. Supernaturalism in Latin Literature iii. The Middle Ages and the Elizabethans

III. The Gothics

i. Types of Gothic Fiction ii. The Historical Supernatural iii. The Explained Supernatural iv. The Byronic Gothic v. The Christian Supernatural vi. The Theory of the Gothic vii. The Nature of Gothic Fiction

IV. Interregnum

i. Supernaturalism in the Romantic Poets ii. German Grotesque iii. The Weird Short Story iv. French Supernaturalism v. Anticipations of Poe: Washington Irving

V. Edgar Allan Poe

i. Poe and the Gothics ii. Theory and Practice iii. Death as Threshold v. Fantasy and Science vi. The Longer Tales vii. Conclusion

VI. Mid-Victorian Horrors

i. Christian Supernaturalism ii. High and Low iii. Occasional Supernaturalism iv. The Americans v. French and German Supernaturalism vi. Irish Gothic: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

VII. The Deluge: British and European Branch

i. Ghosts and More Ghosts ii. Horrors in the Mainstream iii. Between the Genres iv. French Horror v. Slumming with Stoker and Others

VIII. The Deluge: American Branch

i. The East Coast School ii. The West Coast School iii. Eccentrics

Epilogue Bibliographical Essay Bibliography

A. Primary Texts B. Secondary Literature

Volume 2: The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries Preface IX. The Titans

i. Arthur Machen: The Evils of Materialism ii. Algernon Blackwood: Nature as God and Refuge iii. Lord Dunsany: Fantasy and Terror iv. M. R. James: The Pinnacle of the Ghost Story

X. Other Early Twentieth-Century Masters

i. The Evolution of the Ghost Story ii. Walter de la Mare: The Psychological Ghost Story iii. Other British Masters iv. The American School

XI. Novelists, Satirists, and Poets

i. William Hope Hodgson: Things in the Weeds ii. The Horror Novel iii. Horror and Satire iv. Horror and the Mainstream v. Some Europeans vi. The Development of Weird Poetry

XII. H. P. Lovecraft and His Influence

i. Lovecraft and the Pulps ii. The Life of a Dreamer iii. The Theory of the Weird Tale iv. The Lovecraft Mythos v. Characteristics of Lovecraft’s Work vi. Borderline Weirdists: Howard, Smith, Merritt vii. Disciples: Long, Derleth, Wandrei, and Others viii. The Poetry of the Lovecraft Circle

XIII. American Pulpsmiths

i. Weird Tales, Unknown, and Other Pulps ii. The Mixing of Genres: Moore, Kuttner, Bloch, Leiber

XIV. Horror at Midcentury

i. The Group: Bradbury, Matheson, Beaumont, Nolan ii. Some Short Story Writers iii. Some Novelists iv. Domestic Horror: Shirley Jackson

XV. Anticipations of the Boom

XVI. The Boom: The Blockbusters

i. A Disquisition on Bestsellerdom ii. The Breakthrough: Blatty and Tryon iii. The Bestseller Factory: Stephen King iv. Successors to the King v. Vampires and More Vampires vi. Horrors from the Mainstream vii. The British Invasion viii. Splatterpunk and Its Antecedents ix. The Bridge: Peter Straub

XVII. The Boom: The Literati

i. Ramsey Campbell: Horrors of the City ii. Other Short Story Masters iii. Mainstream Horror iv. More Vampires v. Some Other Tale-Spinners

XVIII. The Contemporary Era

i. The Blockbusters Resume ii. The Literati Continue iii. Caitlín R. Kiernan: Prose-Poet of the Lost iv. Still More Vampires v. The British School vi. The American School

Epilogue Bibliographical Essay Bibliography

A. Primary Texts B. Secondary Texts