CiNii Books - The Palgrave handbook to horror literature

This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction.

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1. Introduction Kevin Corstorphine Part I: The Origins and Evolution of Literary Horror 2. Bhayanaka (Horror and the Horrific) in Indian Aesthetics Dhananjay Singh 3. Horror in the Medieval North: The Troll Armann Jakobsson 4. The Horror Genre and Aspects of Native American Indian Literature Joy Porter 5. Vampires, Shape-Shifters, and Sinister Light: Mistranslating Australian Aboriginal Horror in Theory and Literary Practice Naomi Simone Borwein 6. Men, Women, and Landscape in American Horror Fiction Dara Downey 7. Blood Flows Freely: The Horror of Classic Fairy Tales Lorna Piatti-Farnell 8. Turning Dark Pages and Transacting with the Inner Self: Adolescents' Perspectives of Reading Horror Texts Phil Fitzsimmons 9. Horror and Damnation in Medieval Literature Andrew J. Power 10. The Jacobean Theater of Horror Tony Perrello 11. "A mass of unnatural and repulsive horrors": Staging Horror in Nineteenth-Century English Theatre Sarah A. Winter 12. Horror in Gothic Chapbooks Franz J. Potter 13. "We stare and tremble": Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Horror Novels Natalie Neill 14. "The Horror! The Horror!": Tracing Horror in Modernism from Conrad to Eliot Matthias Stephan 15. Global Horror: Pale Horse, Pale Rider David Punter Part II: Themes of Literary Horror 16. Vampires: Reflections in a Dark Mirror Wendy Fall 17. Zombie Fictions Anya Heise-von der Lippe 18. "You don't think I'm like any other boy. That's why you're afraid": Haunted / Haunting Children from The Turn of the Screw to Tales of Terror Chloe Germaine Buckley 19. Discussing Dolls: Horror and the Human Double Sandra Mills 20. "They Have Risen Once: They May Rise Again": Animals in Horror Literature Bernice M. Murphy 21. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Woods?: Deep Dark Forests and Literary Horror Elizabeth Parker 22. Disability and Horror Alan Gregory 23. Monstrous Machines and Devilish Devices Gwyneth Peaty 24. "And Send her Well-Dos'd to the Grave": Literary Medical Horror Laura R. Kremmel 25. Imperial Horror and Terrorism Johan Hoeglund 26. Postmodern Literary Labyrinths: Spaces of Horror Reimagined Katharine Cox Part III: Approaches to Literary Horror 27. Evolutionary Study of Horror Literature Mathias Clasen 28. Transgressive Horror and Politics: The Splatterpunks and Extreme Horror Aalya Ahmad 29. Boundary Crossing and Cultural Creation: Transgressive Horror and Politics of the 1990s Coco d'Hont 30. "Maggot Maladies": Origins of Horror as a Culturally Proscribed Entertainment Sarah Cleary 31. The Mother of All Horrors: Medea's Infanticide in African American Literature Christina Dokou 32. Horror, Race, and Reality Ordner W. Taylor, III 33. Postcolonial Horror Tabish Khair 34. Conceptualizing Varieties of Space in Horror Fiction Andrew Hock Soon Ng 35. Towards an Acoustics of Literary Horror Matt Foley 36. Hesitation Marks: The Fantastic and The Satirical in Postmodern Horror Laura Findlay 37. "It's Alive!" New Materialism and Literary Horror Susan Yi Sencindiver 38. Horror "After Theory" Lyle Enright

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