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Horror fiction stormed the bestseller lists with classics like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, setting the stage for Stephen King's worldwide popularity, but the genre has literary roots going back centuries. This collection provides insight into the way classic horror texts were received, interpreted and discussed by the first generations to experience them, ideas that continue to define the way modern society views horror. Each reprinted article, review or critical essay is prefaced with an introduction and explanatory notes to put the work in context. The book also includes an overview of horror criticism, a publication timeline, and period photographs and illustrations.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
A Note on the Text 11
1. FEAR, TERROR, AND THE SUPERNATURAL
On the Words for "Fear" in Certain Languages:
A Study in Linguistic Psychology
Alex F. Chamberlain 13
Excerpt from On the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke 18
On the Pleasure of Writing Dismal Stories,
Exciting Surprize and Horror
Daniel Defoe 22
Excerpt from "The Prodigal and His Brother"
Frederick W. Robertson 25
The Dread of the Supernatural
The Spectator
Gothic Horror
Lafcadio Hearn 31
2. THE GOTHICS AND THEIR SUCCESSORS
Excerpt from The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction
Edward Yardley 37
Excerpt from "On Gothic Superstition"
Nathan Drake 41
Excerpt from a Review of Literary Hours
by Nathan Drake The Monthly Review
Introductory Dialogue to Tales of Terror
Matthew Lewis (attributed)
Excerpt from "The Revival of Romance"
Walter Raleigh 53
The School of Terror
Thomas E. Rankin and Wilford M. Aikin 58
Fiction in the Romantic Movement
William Allen Neilson 59
Excerpt from "Mrs. Ann Radcliffe"
Sir Walter Scott 60
Excerpt from "Fragments of an Unpublished Manuscript"
Adam Eagle (Fitz-James O'Brien)
Letter to William Godwin
Charles Lamb 66
Introduction to Ghost Stories
Rudolph Ackermann 67
A Tale for a Chimney-Corner
Leigh Hunt 68
Excerpt from "A Letter from Geneva"
John Polidori 77
Remarks on Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Sir Walter Scott 79
Excerpt from a Review of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
John Croker 93
Excerpt from a Review of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany
Review of Presumption; or the Fate of Frankenstein
The London Magazine
Excerpt from "Mrs. Shelley"
R. H. Horne 99
Letter Denying Authorship of The Vampire
Lord Byron 103
Excerpt from "Ellis, Acton, and Currer Bell"
Peter Bayne 105
3. POE AND HIS SUCCESSORS
Excerpt from "Later German Romanticism"
George H. Danton 108
The Origins of Hawthorne and
Paul Elmer More 110
Edgar Allan
Robert Chambers 122
Excerpt from "Edgar Allan Poe"
James Russell Lowell 126
Review of The Raven and Other Poems
The Knickerbocker
Poe: Lack of Substance
W. C. Brownell 132
Poe's Fixing of the Short-Story Form
Charles Sears Baldwin 138
Fitz-James O'Brien
Charles Sears Baldwin 144
Excerpt from "The Mid-Century in America"
Henry Seidel Canby 145
Maupassant and
Frederic Rowland Marvin 148
Advertisement for Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
American Publishers 152
Excerpt from "Ambrose Bierce: An Appraisal"
Frederic Taber Cooper 152
Bierce: Satire, Romance, Philosophy
Edwin Markham 158
Table of Contents vii
Excerpt from "The Short Story"
Fred Lewis Pattee 160
Excerpt from "Concerning Irvin Cobb"
The Bookman
4. MONSTERS OF THE GILDED AGE
The Physiology of "Penny Awfuls"
The London Hermit (Walter Parke) 164
Review of The Purcell Papers by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Saturday Review
Excerpt from "Concerning Tea"
E. V. Lucas 183
Excerpt from "The New Gallery"
J. Charles Cox 185
The Religion of Robert Louis Stevenson
W. J. Dawson 187
Review of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Dublin Review
Excerpt from "Novelists' Law"
Alfred Bailey 195
The Secret
The New York Herald Tribune
Excerpt from "Richard Mansfield"
William Henry Frost 199
Excerpt from "R. L. Stevenson"
Richard Le Gallienne 200
Excerpt from "Our Library List"
Murray's Magazine
Review of Dracula
Baron de Book-Worms 201
Supped Full with Horrors
Charles F. Lummis 202
Review of Dracula
The Literary World
Excerpt from "Open Questions:
Talks with Correspondents"
Current Literature
Excerpt from Human Sexuality
J. Richardson Parke 205
Letter to Julian Hawthorne
Edmund Clarence Stedman 206
Excerpt from Modern Vampirism
A. Osborne Eaves 207
Frankenstein
The Bookman
5. FIN DE SIÈCLE SCIENCE, DETECTION, AND TERROR
Excerpt from "Fictions of the Future"
The Dublin Review
Review of The Island of Dr Moreau
The Baron de Book-Worms 211
Review of The Invisible
William Morton Payne 214
Excerpt from "Love, War and Pseudo-science"
William Lyon Phelps 215
Mr. Wells's War of the Worlds
Clement Shorter 215
Review of The War of the Worlds
William Morton Payne 218
Excerpt from The Technique of the Mystery Story
Carolyn Wells 219
Review of My Friend the Murderer
The Literary World
Excerpt from "Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles"
Arthur Bartlett Maurice 221
Curiosity and Horror in the Theatre
Arthur Bingham Walkley 223
Review of The Three Imposters
The Bookman
Review of The Great God
Richard Henry Stoddard 228
The Gospel of Intensity
Harry Quilter 230
Excerpt from "Oscar Wilde"
A. Edward Newton 255
Art and Luxury
Ramiro de Maetzu 257
6. GHOSTS AND KINDRED HORRORS
Excerpt from "A Study of Individual Psychology"
Caroline Miles 265
The Value of the Supernatural in Fiction
Lafcadio Hearn 267
Some Japanese Bogie-Books
Andrew Lang 279
Ghost Stories
W. F. Dawson 292
Excerpt from "Books of the Christmas Season"
Noah Brooks 294
Two Volumes from Henry James
Henry Wysham Lanier 295
Excerpt from "Gillette"
Amy Leslie 297
Excerpt from "Chronicle and Comment"
The Bookman
Review of The King in Yellow
The Literary World
Review of The Wind in the Rose Bush
The Literary World
Mr. Morris's "The Footprint"
Ward Clark 301
Algernon Blackwood-An Appreciation
Grace Isabel Colbron 303
Robert Hichens
Frederic Taber Cooper 307
The Creeps
H. D. Traill 324
The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction
Olivia Howard Dunbar 329
7. TOWARD A HORROR GENRE
The Supernatural in Fiction
Andrew Lang 337
The Abuse of the Supernatural in Fiction
Edmund Gosse 342
Review of The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
Montague Summers 350
Excerpt from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
Dorothy Scarborough 356
Appendix: Timeline of Major Works of Horror
Index
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