Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 234
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978-1-4422-3145-0 • Hardback • March 2014 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
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James Goho is an independent scholar in Canada with numerous publications in Gothic literature and in social science studies.
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Dark Beginnings: Fear and Trembling in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown Chapter 2: Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”: A Predecessor to Lovecraft’s “The Outsider”?Chapter 3: The Realm of Suffering: Ambrose Bierce and the Phantoms of the American Civil War Chapter 4: Suffering and Evil in the Short Fiction of Arthur Machen Chapter 5: The Haunted Wood: Algernon Blackwood’s Canadian StoriesChapter 6: The Sickness unto Death in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Hound”Chapter 7: The Aboriginal in the Works of H. P. LovecraftChapter 8: What is “the Unnamable”? H. P. Lovecraft and the Problem of EvilChapter 9: From Salem to Eastwick: Witchcraft in the American GothicChapter 10: The City of Darkness: Fritz Leiber and the Beginning of Modern Urban HorrorSelected BibliographyFilmographyAbout the Author
Anyone interested in Gothic literature—especially by the authors examined herein—will find much to ponder in Goho’s essays.
— Journal of American Culture