The vampire has proliferated in literature in a variety of guises - some antagonistic, some heroic, and many falling into a fascinating ""In between.
To this structural analysis, the author adds a new account of the genre's history and its relationship to the myths of the West which have played such an influential role in American history.
This volume focuses on the artistic and cultural implications of an important contemporary novelist.
Brian J. Frost presents a full-scale survey of werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. He identifies principal elements in the werewolf... Læs mere
In 'American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction', scholar and fantasy writer Dale Bailey traces the motive from English gothic fiction through such luminaries as Poe and Hawthorne to Steven King and paperback potboilers of the present.
The Reader and the Detective Story is unique it treats the detective story as a special case of reading, governed by special rules and shaped by a highly specialized formula.... Læs mere
Stephen King's America aims to heighten awareness of the numerous American issues that resonate throughout King's fiction, issues that bear universal application to the evolution of the human condition.
Essential reading for those interested in the suspense novelist Cornell Woolrich, author of Rear Window. His autobiography includes accounts of his working methods, Victorian family and home, memories of childhood, college experience, sexual initiation, and philosophy of life.