Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's fully revised and updated A History of Horror is still the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-po...
Soon after, the Gothic literary genre took the world by storm. Between 1776 and 1820, hundreds of Gothic horror novels were published. We would have to devote several chapters of this series to examining them all in detail, so instead, I’ll focus on some of the more notable contributions....
of examining the history of the horror, fantasy and science fiction films from the groundbreaking silent 1920s through the Golden Age of Universal, the Silver Age of Hammer and up through the 1980s and beyond. The series has a true running time of over 8 hours of fully produced video ...
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According to vampire fiction, vampires do not die of old age. However, they can be killed if they’re exposed to sunlight or if they’re stabbed through the heart with a wooden stake. Why do vampires drink blood? Vampires drink blood for two reasons. 1) They require it ...
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Rather than generating the marvelous by evoking the supernatural as external to history, postcolonial fiction produced the marvelous by narrativizing imperialism as an experience of horror, which constituted an alteration, and amplification, of the scale of reality. This magical aesthetic provided the ...
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of examining the history of the horror, fantasy and science fiction films from the groundbreaking silent 1920s through the Golden Age of Universal, the Silver Age of Hammer and up through the 1980s and beyond. The series has a true running time of over 8 hours of fully produced video ...
Zombie, undead creature frequently featured in works of horror fiction and film. While its roots may possibly be traced back to the zombi of the Haitian Vodou religion, the modern fictional zombie was largely developed by the works of American filmmaker