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The Return of the Repressed : Gothic Horror from the Castle of Otranto to Alien (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)
Valdine Clemens
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Current:
9.6 |
The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothi
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The Shape of Fear : Horror and the Fin De Siecle Culture of Decadence
Susan Jennifer Navarette
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Current:
9.5 |
Like a number of other writers, Tony Magistrale and Michael A. Morrison are inclined to use the word gothic more or less interchangeably with horror. In their well-written introduction to this anthology of critical essays they
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A Dark Night's Dreaming : Contemporary American Horror Fiction (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Tony Magistrale
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Current:
9.4 |
Like a number of other writers, Tony Magistrale and Michael A. Morrison are inclined to use the word gothic more or less interchangeably with horror. In their well-written introduction to this anthology of critical essays they
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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
Stephen King
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Current:
9.4 |
In the fall of 1978 (between The Stand and The Dead Zone), Stephen King taught a course at the University of Maine on "Themes in Supernatu
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Blood Read : The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
Joan Gordon
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Current:
9.3 |
Over the past century the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations--from Bram Stoker's original Dracula to Anne Rice's VAMPIRE CHRONICLES. BLOOD READ examines a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both w
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Everett F. Bleiler
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Current:
9.3 |
This is a lively and opinionated historical essay on supernatural literature written during 1924 through 1927. Indispensable to horror fans (even for those uninterested in H. P. Lovecraf
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Our Vampires, Ourselves
Nina Auerbach
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Current:
9.3 |
"My central idea: that vampirism springs not only from paranoia, xenophobia, or immortal longings, but from generosity and shared enthusiasm. This strange taste cannot be separated from the expansive impulses that make us human."
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The Literature of Terror, Vol. 1: The Gothic Tradition
David Punter
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Current:
9.1 |
This two-volume set (the other half is Volume 2: The Modern Gothic) by David Punter is more than simply a history of the gothic form in American and British literature. It's an ambitious attempt t
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Gothic Horror : A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond
Clive Bloom
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Current:
9.0 |
Clive Bloom is an English professor who's written and edited several books on popular literature and pop culture (e.g., Twentieth-Century Suspense: The Thriller Comes of Age). In this new t
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Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror : Compiled by Stephen Jones
Clive Barker, Stephen Jones (Compiler)
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Current:
9.0 |
This splashy, high-concept book with glossy pages (designed to accompany a BBC-TV series) is not so much an encyclopedia, as a color scrapbook of Clive Barker's horror obsessions. After an introduction in which Barker examines such question
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Nightmare on Main Street : Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic
Mark Edmundson
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Current:
9.0 |
If you observe American pop culture, you'll recognize the questions Mark Edmundson raises in Nightmare on Main Street: Why are the 1990s seeing a resurgence of the gothic? Why do tabloid stories about people such as O. J. Simpson and
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The Ultimate Unauthorized Stephen King Trivia Challenge : Hundreds of Brainteasing Questions on Minute Details and Little-Known Facts About the World'
Robert W. Bly
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Current:
9.0 |
The perfect book to complement anyone's King Collection, The Ultimate Unauthorized Stephen King Trivia Challenge contains hundreds of unnerving questions and trivia to tense your brain, rattle your nerves, and keep you awake all night long.
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St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers (1st Ed)
David Pringle
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Current:
8.9 |
In his preface to this encyclopedic reference, Dennis Etchison is typically eloquent in defending horror literature, the power of which "derives from its predilection for addressing the fundamental questions of life and death, the drama tha
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Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of the Vampires
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.9 |
Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with Pandora, but the second of her New
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The Vampire Armand : The Vampire Chronicles (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles)
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.8 |
In The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice returns to her indomitable Vampire Chronicles and recaptures the gothic horror and delight she first explored in her classic tale more]
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Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.8 |
Anne Rice fans will greet Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator's daughter in Augustus Caesar's day, flees t
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Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.8 |
Anne Rice fans will greet Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator's daughter in Augustus Caesar's day, flees t
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer : The Watcher's Guide (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer)
Christopher Golden
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Current:
8.8 |
One of TV's best shows now has a superb tie-in book--and this watcher's guide is even better than the one for The Simpsons. For novices, the title is a pun: Buffy, an ordinary high school girl with all the normal problems, also must
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Blue Moon (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.8 |
Anita Blake makes a living raising the dead. She also executes rogue vampires and villains among the local were-folk. Marks bind her to Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of St. Louis and her lover, and to her ex-fiancé, a powerful were
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I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
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Current:
8.8 |
One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as scienc
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The Vampire Armand : The Vampire Chronicles (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles.)
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.7 |
In The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice returns to her indomitable Vampire Chronicles and recaptures the gothic horror and delight she first explored in her classic tale more]
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Out of the Madhouse : Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer : The Gatekeeper Trilogy, No 1)
Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder
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Current:
8.7 |
KNOCKIN' ON EVIL'S DOOR Werewolves. Trolls. Sea Monsters. Rain of toads. Skyquakes. Sunnydale is being besieged by dark forces. But even with Buffy providing her unique style of damage control while Giles i
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Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5)
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.7 |
The fifth volume of Rice's Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial books. The tale begins in New York, where Lestat, the coolest of Rice's vampire heroes, is stalking a big-time cocaine dealer and religious-art smuggler--this gu
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Sons of Entropy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, No 3
Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder
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Current:
8.6 |
All Hell is Breaking Loose Led by the fanatical Il Maestro, the Sons of Entropy are assaulting the supernatural Boston mansion that holds back the realm of monsters, and stealing the life force from the besieged Gatekeeper. In li
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Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.6 |
Burnt Offerings is the seventh in Laurell K. Hamilton's genre-straddling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Anita carries a gun and an attitude: "Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the an
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Sunnydale High Yearbook (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder
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Current:
8.5 |
It's senior year for Buffy Summers and her friends. And that means homecoming, senior prom, finals, graduation -- all the usual evil doings guaranteed to make the Chosen One long for recess. Slayer duties caused Buffy to miss pickin
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Immortal : A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Novel
Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder
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Current:
8.5 |
In the first hardcover installment of the bestselling Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder, coauthors of The Watcher's Guide ("Fans will suck this tome dry" -- Entertainment Weekly), pres
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Child of the Hunt (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder
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Current:
8.5 |
EVIL THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES Jousting contests, human chess matches, lords and ladies and beggars...a traveling Renaissance fair has come to Sunnydale. The fair may seem terminally uncool, but Buffy and her friends are charmed
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Interview With the Vampire
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.3 |
In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century
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Vampire$
John Steakley
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Current:
8.3 |
Vampire$ (the title does end with a dollar sign) is about a tightly knit group of professional vampire killers. They may say they're in it for the money, but their death-defying bravado and warm male friendships are as intense
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The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles)
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.2 |
It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of he
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Blood Roses : A Novel of Saint-Germain
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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Current:
8.1 |
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's epic of the vampire Ragoczy, the Count Saint-Germain (including Mansions of Darkness, Darker Jewels, and more]
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The Vampire Lestat (Chronicles of the Vampires, 2nd Book)
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.1 |
After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in more]
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The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Book II)
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.0 |
After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in more]
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Interview With the Vampire
Anne Rice
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Current:
7.9 |
In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century
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Stephen King Country : The Illustrated Guide to the Sites and Sights That Inspired the Modern Master of Horror
George W. Beahm
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Vampire Lectures
Laurence A. Rickels
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Current:
7.9 |
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Blood Thirst : 100 Years of Vampire Fiction
Leonard Wolf(Introduction)
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Current:
7.8 |
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Rational Fears : American Horror in the 1950s
Mark Jancovich
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Current:
7.7 |
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Complete Vampire Chronicles : The Tale of the Body Thief, The Queen of the Damned, The Vampire Lestat, Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
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Current:
7.6 |
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Necroscope : Invaders
Brian Lumley
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Current:
7.6 |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer : The Dust Waltz
Daniel Brereton
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Current:
7.5 |
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Blood & Roses : The Vampire in 19th Century Literature (Creature Classics Ser.))
Adele O. Gladwell
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Current:
7.5 |
The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothi
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The Politics of Everyday Fear
Brian Massumi
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Current:
7.5 |
The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothi
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Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King
Stephen King
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Current:
7.4 |
Like a number of other writers, Tony Magistrale and Michael A. Morrison are inclined to use the word gothic more or less interchangeably with horror. In their well-written introduction to this anthology of critical essays they
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Fantasy and Horror : A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, Tv, Radio, and the Internet
Neil Barron, Marshall B. Tymn
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7.3 |
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Northern Dreamers : Interviews With Famous Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers (Out of This World)
Edo Van Belkom
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7.3 |
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Lovecraft : A Study in the Fantastic
Maurice Levy, S. T. Joshi (Translator)
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Current:
7.3 |
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The Vampire Lectures
Laurence A. Rickels
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Current:
7.2 |
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Horror and the Holy : Wisdom-Teachings of the Monster Tale
Kirk J. Schneider
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7.1 |
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