Horror Literature
through History
Horror Literature
through History
An Encyclopedia of the Stories
That Speak to Our Deepest Fears
VOLUME 1
MATT CARDIN, EDITOR
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Names: Cardin, Matt, editor.
Title: Horror literature through history : an encyclopedia of the stories that speak to our deepest fears / Matt Cardin, editor.
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Contents
Guide to Related Topics
Preface
Introduction: Spookhouses, Catharsis, and Dark Consolations
Timeline of Horror Literature through History
VOLUME 1
Part One: Horror through History
Horror in the Ancient World
Horror in the Middle Ages
Horror in the Early Modern Era
Horror in the Eighteenth Century
Horror in the Nineteenth Century
Horror from 1900 to 1950
Horror from 1950 to 2000
Horror in the Twenty-First Century
Part Two: Themes, Topics, and Genres
Apocalyptic Horror
Eco-horror
Gender, Sexuality, and the Monsters of Literary Horror
Ghost Stories
The Gothic Literary Tradition
Gothic Poetry
Horror Anthologies
Horror Comics
Horror Criticism
Horror Literature and Science Fiction
Horror Literature as Social Criticism and Commentary
Horror Literature in the Internet Age
Horror Publishing, 1975–1995: The Boom Years
Horror Video Games
The Legacy of Frankenstein: From Gothic Novel to Cultural Myth
Occult Fiction
Page to Screen: The Influence of Literary Horror on Film and Television
Religion, Horror, and the Supernatural
Shakespearean Horrors
Small Press, Specialty, and Online Horror
Vampire Fiction from Dracula to Lestat and Beyond
Weird and Cosmic Horror Fiction
Young Adult Horror Fiction
Part Three: Reference Entries (Authors, Works, and Specialized Topics)
Aickman, Robert
Ainsworth, William Harrison
Ajvide Lindqvist, John
Alcott, Louisa May
Alone with the Horrors
Alraune
Ancestral Curse
Arkham House
At the Mountains of Madness
Ballard, J. G.
Barker, Clive
Barlow, R. H.
Barron, Laird
Baudelaire, Charles
“The Beast with Five Fingers”
Beaumont, Charles
Beloved
Benson, E. F.
Bierce, Ambrose
Blackwood, Algernon
Bleiler, E. F.
Bloch, Robert
Body Horror
Body Snatching
Books of Blood
Borges, Jorge Luis
Bowen, Marjorie
Bradbury, Ray
Bram Stoker Award
Brennan, Joseph Payne
Brite, Poppy Z.
The Brontë Sisters
Brown, Charles Brockden
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
Burnt Offerings
Butler, Octavia E.
Buzzati, Dino
Byron, Lord
Byronic Hero
“The Call of Cthulhu”
Campbell, Ramsey
Carmilla
Carrion Comfort
Carroll, Jonathan
Carter, Angela
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
“Casting the Runes”
The Castle of Otranto
The Ceremonies
Chambers, Robert W.
Charnas, Suzy McKee
“The Chimney”
Cisco, Michael
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collier, John
Collins, Wilkie
“The Colour out of Space”
Communion
Conjure Wife
Coppard, A. E.
Crawford, F. Marion
Cthulhu Mythos
Dagon
The Damnation Game
The Damned
The Dark Domain
Dark Fantasy
Dark Gods
The Dark Tower
Datlow, Ellen
de la Mare, Walter
“The Death of Halpin Frayser”
“The Demon Lover”
Derleth, August
The Devil Rides Out
Devils and Demons
Dick, Philip K.
Doubles, Doppelgängers, and Split Selves
Dracula
Dreams and Nightmares
The Drowning Girl
du Maurier, Daphne
Due, Tananarive
“The Dunwich Horror”
Ellison, Harlan
Etchison, Dennis
Ewers, Hanns Heinz
The Exorcist
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
Farris, John
Faulkner, William
Fear
Féval, Paul
Forbidden Knowledge or Power
Frame Story
Frankenstein
Gaiman, Neil
Gautier, Théophile
“The Ghost Ship”
Ghost Story
The Girl Next Door
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes”
Gogol, Nikolai
The Golem
“Good Country People”
Gothic Hero/Villain
Grabiński, Stefan
Grant, Charles L.
“The Great God Pan”
“Green Tea”
The Grotesque
Haggard, H. Rider
Haining, Peter
Hand, Elizabeth
The Hands of Or
lac
Hardy, Thomas
Harris, Thomas
Hartley, L. P.
Harvest Home
The Haunted House or Castle
The Haunting of Hill House
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hearn, Lafcadio
Hell House
Herbert, James
Hichens, Robert
Hill, Joe
Hill, Susan
The Historian
Hodgson, William Hope
Hoffmann, E. T. A.
“The Horla”
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The House Next Door
House of Leaves
The House of the Seven Gables
The House on the Borderland
Howard, Robert E.
Hubbard, L. Ron
Hugo, Victor
Huysmans, J. K.
I Am Legend
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
In a Glass Darkly
Incubi and Succubi
International Gothic Association
International Horror Guild Award
Interview with the Vampire
The Invisible Man
Irving, Washington
The Island of Doctor Moreau
It
VOLUME 2
Jackson, Shirley
James, Henry
James, M. R.
The Jewel of Seven Stars
John Silence: Physician Extraordinary
Joshi, S. T.
Joyce, Graham
Kafka, Franz
Keene, Brian
Ketchum, Jack
Kiernan, Caitlín R.
King, Stephen
The King in Yellow
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirk, Russell
Klein, T. E. D.
Kneale, Nigel
Koja, Kathe
Koontz, Dean
Kuttner, Henry
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Lane, Joel
Lansdale, Joe R.
“The Last Feast of Harlequin”
“Lazarus”
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan
Lee, Tanith
Lee, Vernon
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Lewis, Matthew Gregory
“Ligeia”
Ligotti, Thomas
Link, Kelly
“The Listeners”
Long, Frank Belknap
“Lot No. 249”
Lovecraft, H. P.
Lovecraftian Horror
Lumley, Brian
The Lurker at the Threshold
Machen, Arthur
“Mackintosh Willy”
Mad Scientist
Malpertuis
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Martin, George R. R.
“The Masque of the Red Death”
Matheson, Richard
Maturin, Charles Robert
Maupassant, Guy de
McCammon, Robert R.
McDowell, Michael
McGrath, Patrick
Melmoth the Wanderer
Metcalfe, John
Meyrink, Gustav
Miéville, China
The Mind Parasites
Misery
The Monk
“The Monkey’s Paw”
Monsters
Moore, Alan
Morrell, David
Morrison, Toni
Morrow, W. C.
“Mr. Arcularis”
Mummies
“The Music of Erich Zann”
The Mysteries of Udolpho
New Weird
Newman, Kim
The Night Land
Night Shift
Nolan, William F.
Northanger Abbey
“The Novel of the Black Seal”
Novels versus Short Fiction
The Numinous
Oates, Joyce Carol
O’Brien, Fitz-James
Occult Detectives
O’Connor, Flannery
The October Country
Oliver, Reggie
Onions, Oliver
The Other
Our Lady of Darkness
“Out of the Deep”
Palahniuk, Chuck
Penny Dreadful
The Phantom of the Opera
“The Phantom ’Rickshaw”
Phantoms
“Pickman’s Model”
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Poe, Edgar Allan
Possession and Exorcism
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Psychological Horror
Pulp Horror
Quinn, Seabury
Quiroga, Horacio
Radcliffe, Ann
The Rats
“The Rats in the Walls”
Ray, Jean
“The Reach”
“The Recrudescence of Imray”/“The Return of Imray”
The Return
Rice, Anne
“Ringing the Changes”
“The Rocking-Horse Winner”
Rohmer, Sax
Romanticism and Dark Romanticism
Rosemary’s Baby
Russell, Ray
Saki
Samuels, Mark
Sandkings
“The Sand-man”
Sarban
“Sardonicus”
“Schalken the Painter”
Schulz, Bruno
Schweitzer, Darrell
“The Screaming Skull”
She
Shea, Michael
Shelley, Mary
Shiel, M. P.
The Shining
Shirley Jackson Awards
“A Short Trip Home”
“Silent Snow, Secret Snow”
Simmons, Dan
Smith, Clark Ashton
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Song of Kali
The Songs of Maldoror (Les Chants de Maldoror)
Spiritualism
Splatterpunk
“Sredni Vashtar”
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Straub, Peter
Sturgeon, Theodore
The Sublime
Summers, Montague
Surrealism
Tem, Melanie
Terror versus Horror
Tessier, Thomas
“There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding”
“They”
“Thrawn Janet”
Transformation and Metamorphosis
The Turn of the Screw
The Uncanny
Unreliable Narrator
Vampires
“The Vampyre”
VanderMeer, Jeff
Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood
Vathek
Wagner, Karl Edward
Wakefield, H. R.
Walpole, Horace
Wandrei, Donald
Weird Tales
Wellman, Manly Wade
Wells, H. G.
Welty, Eudora
The Werewolf of Paris
Werewolves
Wharton, Edith
Wheatley, Dennis
“The Whimper of Whipped Dogs”
“The White Hands”
“The White People”
Whitehead, Henry S.
“The Willows”
Wilson, F. Paul
Witches and Witchcraft
The Woman in Black
World Fantasy Award
Wyndham, John
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn
“The Yellow Wall-Paper”
“Young Goodman Brown”
“Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”
Zombies
Select Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
Guide to Rela
ted Topics
Interviews
Laird Barron
Ramsey Campbell
Ellen Datlow
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Joe R. Lansdale
Thomas Ligotti
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Horror Literature through History
Horror in the Ancient World
Horror in the Early Modern Era
Horror in the Middle Ages
Horror in the Eighteenth Century
Horror in the Nineteenth Century
Horror from 1900 to 1950
Horror from 1950 to 2000
Horror in the Twenty-First Century
Horror Types and Subgenres
Apocalyptic Horror
Dark Fantasy
Eco-horror
Ghost Stories
The Gothic Literary Tradition
Gothic Poetry
Horror Comics
Horror Literature and Science Fiction
Lovecraftian Horror
New Weird
Occult Fiction
Psychological Horror
Vampire Fiction from Dracula to Lestat and Beyond
Weird and Cosmic Horror Fiction
Young Adult Horror Fiction
Monsters, Creatures, Threats, and Villains
Devils and Demons
Doubles, Doppelgängers, and Split Selves
Gothic Hero/Villain
Incubi and Succubi
Mad Scientist
Monsters
Mummies
Vampires
Werewolves
Witches and Witchcraft
Zombies
Topical Studies
Body Horror
Cthulhu Mythos
Gender, Sexuality, and the Monsters of Literary Horror
Horror Anthologies
Horror Criticism
Horror Literature in the Internet Age
Horror Literature as Social Criticism and Commentary
Horror Publishing, 1975–1995: The Boom Years
Horror Video Games
The Legacy of Frankenstein: From Gothic Novel to Cultural Myth
Novels versus Short Fiction
The Numinous
Occult Detectives
Penny Dreadful
Pulp Horror
Religion, Horror, and the Supernatural
Romanticism and Dark Romanticism
Shakespearean horrors
Small Press, Specialty, and Online Horror
Spiritualism
Splatterpunk
The Sublime
Surrealism
Terror versus Horror
The Uncanny
Unreliable Narrator
Weird Tales
Tropes, Themes, and Narrative Techniques
Ancestral Curse
Body Snatching
Byronic Hero
Dreams and Nightmares
Forbidden Knowledge or Power
Frame Story
The Grotesque
The Haunted House or Castle
Possession and Exorcism
Transformation and Metamorphosis
Unreliable Narrator
Authors and Works
Aickman, Robert
“Ringing the Changes”