age ~72
from Pella, IA
The American author Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) is a controversial figure within the field of Gothic studies. He was admired by nineteenth-century literary figures such as Poe, Hawthorne, George Lippard (who dedicated his gothic novel Quaker City to him), and John Greenleaf Whittier; identifi...
Author
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Publisher
University of Wales Press
ISBN #
0708324193
EAN Code
9780708324196
ISBN #
9
The twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale” Stephen King about H. P. LovecraftH. P. Lovecraft’s fiction reveals a universe that is vaster, darker, and stranger than anything previously imagined. His cosmic horror” reflects a peculiarly modern philosophical belief system...
Author
H.P. Lovecraft
Binding
Paperback
Pages
480
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
ISBN #
1435116437
EAN Code
9781435116436
ISBN #
8
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Emmanuel Burdeau, R. Barton Palmer, Matt ...
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
264
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN #
7
Multi-eyed protoplasmic entities, flesh-eating ghouls, animate corpses, time-traveling body snatchers, and, yes, huge albino penguins. These are some of the bizarre creatures that populate the universe created by American horror author H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft has influenced many of today’s most f...
Author
H.P. Lovecraft
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
ISBN #
143511647X
EAN Code
9781435116474
ISBN #
5
From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time. From the Puritans’ conviction that a thousand prete...
Author
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Binding
Paperback
Pages
280
Publisher
Popular Press 3
ISBN #
0299199541
EAN Code
9780299199548
ISBN #
3
Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of autho...
Author
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Binding
Paperback
Pages
200
Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN #
0823271889
EAN Code
9780823271887
ISBN #
1
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the American author of “weird tales” who died in 1937 impoverished and relatively unknown, has become a twenty-first-century star, cropping up in places both anticipated and unexpected. Authors, filmmakers, and shapers of popular culture like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
296
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN #
0816699259
EAN Code
9780816699254
ISBN #
6
Within just a few years, The Rocky Horror Picture Show grew from an oddball musical to a celebrated cinematic experience of midnight features and outrageous audience participation. This study tells the extraordinary story of the film from initial reception to eventual cult status. Uncovering the fil...
Author
Jeffrey Weinstock
Binding
Paperback
Pages
144
Publisher
Wallflower Press
ISBN #
1905674503
EAN Code
9781905674503
ISBN #
2