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by Edgar Allan Poe. 310 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  Oxford, England  

Publication Year:

  1994
Subjects:   Horror Tales, American, Young Men--Massachusetts--Nantucket Island--Fiction, Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Fiction
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
Book by Edgar Allan Poe; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Horror Tales, American, Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Fiction, Young Men--Massachusetts--Nantucket Island--Fiction
...Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity 1993 ; and The Narrative...Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales Edited with an Introduction and Notes...Nantucket Island Mass. --Fiction. 3. Horror tales, American . I. Kennedy, J. Gerald...
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Mazes of the Serpent: An Anatomy of Horror Narrative
Book by Roger B. Salomon; Cornell University Press, 2002
Subjects: Horror Tales, American--History And Criticism, Horror Tales, English--History And Criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), Popular Literature--English-Speaking Countries--History And Criticism
...sand, shingle beds, and willow- grown islands is almost topped by the water, but in...have already pointed out that science fiction also can generate these alternate worlds...victims of the infamous prison on Sandusky Island), and, from colonial times, with malignancy...within a pastiche of late Victorian fiction, has assimilated the details of horror...a scholar with the skill of a major fiction writer. Such a combination allows her...
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The Tales of Poe
Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1987
Subjects: American literature--History and criticism, Fantasy fiction, American--History and criticism, Horror tales, American--History and criticism, Horror tales--History and criticism, Poe, Edgar Allan--1809-1849--Tales
...T. S. Eliot recommended, "we see a mass of unique shape and impressive size...Carringer Poes stature as a writer of fiction is based principally upon about fifteen...Adam, Poes enclosures suggest his fictional universe of negative possibility and...to be, it reaches a point of critical mass which collapses from within and leaves...resonances when, in later Romantic fiction, that veil becomes the Veil of Isis...
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Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice
Book by Linda Badley; Greenwood Press, 1996
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...drawing on the comic-book, he gives his fiction a sound track. He bludgeons typography...that we have. King's pop, white, mass-produced version of soul (and however...Flanders, who has never left Goat Island-or the spirits who come to meet her...and in giving readings from that fiction he was demonstrating his long-standing...calling (xviii). Likewise King, a mass-media guru for the global village...that runs throughout and beyond the fiction. Don Herron is correct in describing...literary allusions in terms of the mass media, producing a cross between...
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How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County
Book by Brian J. Cudahy; Fordham University Press, 2002
Subjects: Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)--History, Local Transit--New York Metropolitan Area--History, Transportation--New York Metropolitan Area--History
...of 1862-with the horrors of Civil War providing...to and from Coney Island (see chapter 4...Railroad in 1889. Young Slocum then joined...registry was Edgartown, Massachusetts.2 The first vessels that served Coney Island with any kind of...
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Cargo Cult Horror
Journal article by Lamont Lindstrom; Oceania, Vol. 70, 2000
Subjects: Cargo movement--Melanesia, Desire--Psychological aspects, Ethnology--Research, Horror tales--Social aspects, Melanesia--Religious aspects, Modernism--Influence
...and the withering of human sociability. Such tales reinforced the primitive horror with which even the most sophisticated among us...growing concern, at least within 1960s and 1970s American anthropology, with the power of culture. Peoples...
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Horror Films: Tales to Master Terror or Shapers of Trauma?
Journal article by Bruce Ballon, Molyn Leszcz; American Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 61, 2007
Subjects: Panic attacks, Patients, Presentations, Religion, Trauma
Horror Films: Tales to Master Terror or Shapers...neurosis, often associated with horror films, can be considered and...1978) described the case of a young woman who also developed cinematic...character, resulted in the young womans overidentification...
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"Fairy Tales for the Apocalypse": Wes Craven on the Horror Film
Journal article by Christopher Sharrett; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 13, 1985
Subjects: Craven, Wes, Motion pictures, Society
"Fairy Tales for the Apocalypse": Wes Craven on the Horror Film by Christopher Sharrett...overtaking the middle-class values of American society frequently lauded by genre...the world is simply encroaching on American myth and that it must be redefined...up was that we were doing "fairy tales for the apocalypse," and this was...think, on my attitude toward the horror film. But more importantly, I think...issues which have changed profoundly. American myth as previously conceived-John...working model for a lot of us making horror films comes almost out of Mao Tse-Tung...
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Gilman's Arabesque Wallpaper
Journal article by Marty Roth; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 34, 2001
Subjects: Feminism and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gilman, Charlotte Perkins--Works, Horror tales--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Imperialism in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Yellow Wallpaper (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wallpaper--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women authors--Works
...By contrast, studies of the culture of American empire tend to observe male priority in...run off in great slanting waves of optic horror" (25). Yellow wallpaper was a familiar...American Orientalist writer of horror tales and the author with whom Gilman was regularly...
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Lifting the Lid on Poe's "Oblong Box"
Journal article by Bonnie Shannon Mcmullen; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 23, 1995
Subjects: Horror tales--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poe, Edgar Allan--Authorship, The Oblong Box (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...assimilated by native Americans, a theory that sits well...salt" melts that gave his tales an artificially innocuous...Goldhurst, "Self-Reflective Fiction by Poe: Three Tales...Development of American Sea Fiction (Cambridge: Harvard Univ...
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1.
Horror Comics: The Nasties of the 1950s
Magazine article by John Sringhall; History Today, Vol. 44, July 1994
Subjects: Comic books and children--History, Horror tales--History
...In the early 1950s lurid American crime and horror comics reached Britain as ballast in ships...confidence. Using blocks made from imported American matrices, ensuing British versions of Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror were...
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H. P. LOVECRAFT: Prophet of Humanism
Magazine article by Robert M. Price; The Humanist, Vol. 61, July 2001
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...realism that, I would argue, is more disturbing than any of his fictional creations. Simply put, this piece of storytelling cannot even...Pearson relates, "come in three guises: there are little gray men with big black eyes, worms ripping their way out of our sexual...and is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthornes famous short story "Young Goodman Brown." In contradistinction to Hawthornes sly, deceptively...
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More Tales of the Big and Tall by Hunter Baker It was said of Alfred Hitchcock that his self-image was so strong, he thought of...Malcolm X would have looked if the prophet of rage had repeatedly vented his righteous fury on the buffet table. Despite my horror at resembling the original X-Mans fat white shadow, I forced myself to watch joylessly the rest of the interview. I removed...
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American Evacuees Bring Horror Tales from Lebanon
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 21, 2006
American Evacuees Bring Horror Tales from Lebanon. Byline: Jon Ward...TIMES LINTHICUM, Md. - The first 150 American evacuees from war-torn Lebanon arrived...stories of frantic attempts to get out - tales of anger, fear and guilt over those they left behind. "We lived through horror. .. Just get out alive - that was it...by 7 a.m. About 8,000 of the 25,000 Americans in Lebanon are seeking to evacuate...
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Obama Warns of a Health Care 'Cost of Inaction'; Amps Up Horror Tales on Road
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 16, 2009
Subjects: Health care costs, Health care industry--Economic aspects, Health care reform, Insurance industry--Economic aspects, Medical care, Cost of, National health insurance
...Health Care Cost of Inaction; Amps Up Horror Tales on Road. Byline: Matthew Mosk...roughly 1,600."These are ordinary Americans, no different than anyone else, held...desperately need." Similar health care horror stories are becoming a set piece used...capitalizes on polling that shows Americans are in broad agreement in their desire...also frightening accounts of ailing Americans who were let down by their insurers...
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Flash Back: Horror Stories; What Will Halloween Have in Store for You This Year? TALES OF THE PAST HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), October 30, 2004
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Reality the Worst Horror
Newspaper article; Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore, Australia), November 14, 2009
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Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 2, 2005
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...contributor to Weird Tales magazine and beneficiary...reviser of lesser writers horror stories; and tireless...1923), in which an American protagonist (more fully...you. But the house of fiction is a rambling old edifice...writes about new and old fiction for Kirkus Reviews, The...
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American Literature
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Lovecraft, H. P
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...short-story writer, and critic, b. Boston. He is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature. His skillfully wrought tales and poems convey with passionate intensity the mysterious, dreamlike, and often macabre forces that pervaded his sensibility...good friend, and an affectionate husband. Indeed, his painful life, his neurotic attraction to intense beauty, violent horror, and death, and his sense of the world of dreams contributed to his greatness as a writer. Such compelling stories as...
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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