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  Horror Literature

  through History

  Horror Literature

  through History

  An Encyclopedia of the Stories

  That Speak to Our Deepest Fears

  VOLUME 1

  MATT CARDIN, EDITOR

  Copyright © 2017 by ABC-CLIO, LLC

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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.

  Description: Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, 2017. |

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017000044 (print) | LCCN 2017000211 (ebook) |

  ISBN 9781440842016 (set : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781440847561

  (volume 1 : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781440847578 (volume 2 : acid-free

  paper) | ISBN 9781440842023 (ebook)

  Subjects: LCSH: Horror tales—History and criticism—Encyclopedias.

  Classification: LCC PN3435 .H665 2017 (print) | LCC PN3435 (ebook) |

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  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017000044

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  978-1-4408-4757-8 (vol. 2)

  978-1-4408-4202-3 (ebook)

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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”

  Leiber, Fritz

  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

  Trilby

  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”