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Author Morgan, Jack, 1939-

Title The biology of horror : Gothic literature and film / Jack Morgan
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction: "The Body Is His Book" -- 1. Mortal Coils: The Comic-Horror Double Helix -- 2. Muse of Horror: Traditions of Dreadful Imagining -- 3. Macabre Aesthetics -- 4. Anxiety of Organism -- 5. Acquaintance with the Night: America and the Muse of Horror -- 6. Dark Carnival: The Esoterics of Celebration -- 7. Languishment: The Wounded Hero -- 8. Sinister Loci: The Properties of Terror -- 9. Apotropaion and the Hideous Obscure -- 10. Soul at Zero: Dark Epiphanies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index
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Subject Horror tales -- History and criticism
Horror films -- History and criticism
Gothic revival (Literature)
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Horror films
Horror tales
Griezelverhalen.
Gothic novel.
Griezelfilms.
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
Literatura (história e crítica)
Terror (gênero)
Cinema (história e crítica)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002018761
ISBN 0585464618
9780585464619