Edgar Allan Poe Matches Wits With One of the First Identified Serial Killers!

This Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture - its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known literary and other works. Its scope ranges from the earliest manifestations of American Gothic traditions in frontier narratives and colonial myths, to its recent responses to contemporary global events. Moving from analyses of eighteenth-century literature to twenty-first century video games, and touching upon visual art, film, and television, serial killers, monsters, education and cityscapes, this Companion aims to demonstrate the centrality of the gothic to American culture writ large through four key sections: Gothic Histories, Gothic Identities; Gothic Genres, Gothic Sites; Gothic Media; and American Creatures.

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: Affidavits of Genius: Edgar Allan Poe and the French Critics, 1847-1924. . Jean Alexander. ; Seven Tales. . Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, W. T. Bandy.

Nineteenth-Century Fiction ◽

10.1525/ncl.1972.27.3.99p01717 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 361-363

Author(s):

Robert M. Adams

Keyword(s):

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

Charles Baudelaire

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: Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe. . Jonathan Elmer.

Nineteenth-Century Literature ◽

10.1525/ncl.1997.52.3.99p0307y ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 374-377

Author(s):

Ezra Greenspan

Keyword(s):

Mass Culture ◽

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

The Social

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A Critical Study of Stephen King and Horror Fiction

SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH ◽

10.24113/ijellh.v7i5.10176 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (5) ◽

pp. 23

Author(s):

Dr. Sudhir V. Nikam ◽

Mr. Rajkiran J. Biraje

Keyword(s):

Research Problem ◽

Extensive Study ◽

Serial Killers ◽

Critical Study ◽

Research Attention ◽

Stephen King ◽

Special Place ◽

Fiction Writers ◽

Horror Fiction ◽

A Site

This present research undertakes the extensive study of horror fiction genre with reference to the select novels of one of the finest and celebrated horror fiction writers of all time, Stephen King. This paper is a substantial assessment of the select horror fiction of King. The research problem revolves extensively around the word fear. Stephen King has conjured up the images of most horrific creatures, monsters, places, and stories, and some of the most enduring villains in fiction. These unimaginable evil beings test the limits of the protagonist. Some of these villains have gone to the extent of becoming as famous (or infamous) as the writer himself. Many of Stephen King villains are monsters of the human variety such as serial killers, power hungry despots, nihilists, etc. His most memorable and monumental characters are the supernatural ones who use their dark powers to twist the orderly world around them into a special place of chaos and pain. It has been assumed that the horror elements in the fiction of Stephen King are the result of his strategic use of supernaturalist and non-supernaturalist elements. The techniques that he uses to evoke horror in reader have been treated as a site for research attention by the researcher.

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