The modern weird tale / by S.T. Joshi. by Joshi, S. T., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Shirley Jackson: domestic horror -- The persistence of supernaturalism: William Peter Blatty: the Catholic weird tale -- Stephen King: the king's new clothes -- T. …”

The unique legacy of Weird Tales : the evolution of modern fantasy and horror / edited by Justin Everett, Jeffrey H. Shanks.

Table of Contents: “…The unique magazine : Weird Tales, modernism, and genre formation. "Something that swayed as if in unison" : the artistic authenticity of Weird Tales in the interwar periodical culture of modernism /…”
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The Republic of Cthulhu : Lovecraft, the weird tale, and conspiracy theory / by Eric Wilson. by Wilson, Eric, 1961

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Performing Brains on Screen / Fernando Vidal. by Vidal, Fernando

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The book of yokai : mysterious creatures of Japanese folklore / Michael Dylan Foster ; with original illustrations by Shinonome Kijin. by Foster, Michael Dylan, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Yokai, folklore, and this book -- The language of yokai -- Event becomes object -- Heroes of myth and legend -- Weird tales and weird tastes -- Modern disciplines -- Postwar animation and the yokai boom -- Yokai culture network -- Zone of uncertainty -- The order of yokai -- Wilds -- Water -- Countryside -- Village and city -- Home -- Epilogue.…”
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The nightmare, and other tales of dark fantasy / Francis Stevens ; edited and with an introduction by Gary Hoppenstand ; illustrations by Thomas L. Floyd. by Stevens, Francis

Table of Contents: “…The nightmare (All-story weekly, April 14, 1917) -- The labyrinth (All-story weekly, July 27/August 10, 1918) -- Friend island (All-story weekly, September 7, 1918) -- Behind the curtain (All-story weekly, September 21, 1918) -- Unseen, unfeared (People's favorite magazine, February 10, 1919) -- The elf trap (Argosy, July 5, 1919) -- Serapion (Argosy, June 19/July 10, 1920) -- Sunfire (Weird tales, July/August/September/October 1923).…”

The Gothic and the carnivalesque in American culture / Timothy Jones. by Jones, Timothy, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Ballyhoo -- Theory, practice and Gothic carnival -- 'The delight of its horror' : Edgar Allan Poe's carnivals and the nineteenth-century American Gothic -- Weird tales and pulp subjunctivity -- Ray Bradbury and the October aura -- 'Hello, again, you little monsters!' …”
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Ramsey Campbell : Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror / edited by Gary William Crawford.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; 1 "That Ill-Rumoured and Evilly-Shadowed Seaport"; 2 "A Puppet's Parody of Joy"; 3 Ramsey Campbell and the Twenty-First-Century Weird Tale; 4 An Archaeology of Urban Dread; 5 Glimpses of Absolute Power; 6 Master and Pupil; 7 Mastering Darkness; 8 Grinning in the Dark; 9 A Local Afterlife; 10 What Develops in the Darkest Rooms of the Mind; 11 A Religion of His Own Making; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Editor; About the Contributors…”
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The uses of adversity / Ronald Wallace. by Wallace, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…-- Howdy Doody -- Froggy the Gremlin -- War games -- The funnies -- The voyeur -- Weird tales -- The Tivoli -- Dogs (1) -- The killing jar -- 1960 -- Gin Lane -- Statutes of limitation -- Delayed reaction -- Temps perdu -- Milk toast -- Unto you a son -- 1958 -- The Friday night fights -- The uses of adversity (1) -- Needles -- The last resort -- Another think coming -- My father: a life -- Thanksgiving 1994 -- The uses of adversity (2) -- Doctor Death -- Safety first -- Crowned -- Coaching -- Fielding -- Hunting -- Tonight's lecture -- Rich -- Albert's osprey -- Osprey -- Swamp -- Feeding the Bananaquits: Maho Bay -- The bad snorkeler -- Seasick -- Metaphor as illness -- Going deaf -- Tomatoes -- Conspiracy theory -- Guilty -- Dogs (2) -- Accident -- In our parents' bed -- Old man jokes -- Alzheimer's -- At the Vietnamese restaurant -- Living with pain -- Bluebirds -- The faithful -- God's handiwork -- The American dream -- Broken sonnet -- Mr. …”

Plants in science fiction : speculative vegetation / edited by Katherine E. Bishop, David Higgins and Jerry Määttä.

Table of Contents: “…Weird Flora: Plant Life in the Classic Weird Tale -- 2. 'Bloody unnatural brutes': Anthropomorphism, Colonialism and the Return of the Repressed in John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids -- 3. …”
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The new annotated H.P. Lovecraft / Howard Phillips Lovecraft ; edited with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger ; introduction by Alan Moore. by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937

The age of Lovecraft / Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, editors ; foreword by Ramsey Campbell ; afterword, interview with China Miéville.

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