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    Blue Velvet-small Town Horror Tale
    Magazine article by Ron Magid; American Cinematographer, Vol. 67, November 1986
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    Blue Velvet-small Town Horror Tale by Ron Magid Produced by Richard...troubling, both The Elephant Man and Dune reflect his perverse...incongruities of small town American life. Despite its more naturalistic...murder mystery follows a naive young mans descent into the sordid...peaceful neighborhood in a small American town," Lynch says. "Its...approach, and then the true horror and humor of the situation...
     
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    Stephen King's American Apocalypse
    Magazine article by Ross Douthat; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2007
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    American culture--Portrayals, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Works, Horror stories, Horror tales, King, Stephen (American writer)--Works, Popular culture--Portrayals
    Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

    ...Americas most famous horror writer made the...courage to honor "a man many people see...his way out of the mass-market ghetto...ability to imbue his tales of the uncanny with...contemporary American fiction. When Tom Wolfe...complained, "sinister men wear white Andromeda...and distinctively American about how his characters...meeting a demented young man who was handing...of his ordinary Americans could encounter...sense, by teaching Americans that reason and...than convenient fictions, and that there...paranoid style in American literature--Thomas...this long tale of dark Christianity...
     
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    Horror Comics: The Nasties of the 1950s
    Magazine article by John Sringhall; History Today, Vol. 44, July 1994
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    Comic books and children--History, Horror tales--History
    Collections: History, Entire Library

    ...forgotten Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications...the early 1950s lurid American crime and horror comics reached Britain...British versions of Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror were printed in London...attention to the British |horror comic trade in a provocative...churchmen feared American mass culture invading Britain...
     
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    The Engineer of Disaster : This Powerful Horror Tale Presents One Man's Ordeal of Faith and Doubt as He Is Tested beyond His Limits
    Magazine article by Donald Secreast; World and I, Vol. 14, September 1999
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    A Prayer for the Dying (Book), Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
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    ...This Powerful Horror Tale Presents One Mans...creative writing and American literature at Radford...Jacob must kill both men. Shocked by what...Memories break the man To a certain extent...stress test. Good horror isnt necessarily good...religious novel or a horror novel. Good horror...named one of the Best Young American Novelists...he has any--the younger, the better. Certainly...tablecloth, spawns islands of pink atop the cream...trap that even good horror writers fall into...elements of their fiction is simply to amplify...
     
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    Horror in Silent Films
    Magazine article by George Turner; American Cinematographer, Vol. 76, December 1995
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    ...expressionist films, little is said about horror films made before Dracula, Frankenstein...later vintage. Not all of these are horror pictures perse, but all contain essential...there were adaptations from the weird tales of Poe, Stevenson, Hugo and - in 1910...strongest influence on the visuals of the American horror films of the sound era. The entire...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (Horror Tales American) OR (Young Men Massachusetts Nantucket Island Fiction) OR (Nantucket Island Mass Fiction)

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    American Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...by every aspiring American writer and was first...attention by presenting American folk stories, and...won the hearts of Americans with glib, moralizing...these were strongly American, and transcendentalists...such principles. Men as diverse as James...aesthetic theories, and tales of mystery and horror won for him a more...into an adventure tale of whaling days profound...origin began to find a mass audience. The stories...Sidney Lanier and the fiction of Thomas Nelson...dynamos triumph over man, and Ambrose Bierce...establish new values. Young artists flocked to...
     
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    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    POE, EDGAR ALLAN 1809 49, American poet, short-story writer, and critic...most brilliant and original writers in American literature. His skillfully wrought tales and poems convey with passionate intensity...his magazine stories were collected as Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840...attraction to intense beauty, violent horror, and death, and his sense of the world...
     
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    Lovecraft, H. P
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Lovecraft), 1890 1937, American writer, b. Providence...A master of Gothic horror, fantasy, and science fiction of a most rococo variety...originally appeared in Weird Tales and other pulp magazines...Some of his best-known tales are part of the Cthulhu...H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (2005); A. Derleth...
     
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    Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...BIERCE, AMBROSE GWINETT am broz gwinet birs, 1842 1914?, American satirist, journalist, and short-story writer, b. Meigs...West Coast. Later he was Washington correspondent for the American and a contributor to Cosmopolitan. Bierces collection of...language, his short stories were collected in such volumes as Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) and Can Such Things Be...precision of his language, and in his realistically developed horror stories. Disillusionment and sadness pervaded the latter...
     
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    Dahl, Roald
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...macabre childrens books and horror-tinged adult fiction. Dahl spurned a university...Great Britain). Dahls first fiction, stories drawn from his RAF...was published in a popular American magazine, and the first of...published in 2006. He returned to young peoples tales with James and the Giant Peach...
     

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