The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares

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• The Gothic World of Stephen King *
• The Gothic World of Stephen King Landscape of Nightmares *
• Contents *
• The Horror of It All: Stephen King and the Landscape of the American Nightmare 1
• Blood, Eroticism, and the Vampire in Twentieth-Century Popular Literature 20
• Of Mad Dogs and Firestarters— the Incomparable Stephen King 31
• Reading between the Lines: Stephen King and Allegory 37
• A Blind Date with Disaster: Adolescent Revolt in the Fiction of Stephen King 49
• Freaks: The Grotesque as Metaphor in the Works of Stephen King 56
• Viewing "The Body": King's Portrait of the Artist as Survivor 64
• Stephen King's Creation of Horror in 'Salem's Lot: A Prolegomenon towards a New Hermeneutic of the Gothic Novel 75
• Love and Death in the American Car: Stephen King's Auto-Erotic Horror 84
• The Dark Tower: Stephen King's Gothic Western 95
• Taking Stephen King Seriously: Reflections on a Decade of Best-Sellers 107
• A Dream of New Life: Stephen King's Pet Sematary as a Variant of Frankenstein 115
• Stephen King's Pet Sematary: Hawthorne's Woods Revisited 126

• The Gothic World of Stephen King *
• The Gothic World of Stephen King Landscape of Nightmares *
• Contents *
• The Horror of It All: Stephen King and the Landscape of the American Nightmare 1
• Blood, Eroticism, and the Vampire in Twentieth-Century Popular Literature 20
• Of Mad Dogs and Firestarters— the Incomparable Stephen King 31
• Reading between the Lines: Stephen King and Allegory 37
• A Blind Date with Disaster: Adolescent Revolt in the Fiction of Stephen King 49
• Freaks: The Grotesque as Metaphor in the Works of Stephen King 56
• Viewing "The Body": King's Portrait of the Artist as Survivor 64
• Stephen King's Creation of Horror in 'Salem's Lot: A Prolegomenon towards a New Hermeneutic of the Gothic Novel 75
• Love and Death in the American Car: Stephen King's Auto-Erotic Horror 84
• The Dark Tower: Stephen King's Gothic Western 95
• Taking Stephen King Seriously: Reflections on a Decade of Best-Sellers 107
• A Dream of New Life: Stephen King's Pet Sematary as a Variant of Frankenstein 115
• Stephen King's Pet Sematary: Hawthorne's Woods Revisited 126
• Oz the Gweat and Tewwible and "The Other Side": The Theme of Death in Pet Sematary and Jitterbug Perfume 135
• Contributors 142