The Literature of Terror: The modern gothic

ambiguity American American Psycho appears attempt audience become Bierce blood body century characters civilisation complex Conan Doyle contemporary Corman course cultural dark dead death desire dialectic distortion Dorian Gray Dracula dream E. F. Bleiler fact fantasy Fat Controller fear figure Frankenstein ghost story Gormenghast Gothic fiction Gothic Novel Gothic tradition Gothic writers Hammer Haunted hero Horror Fiction horror film human images imagination introd Isbel J. G. Ballard James Jekyll's kind King in Yellow literary literature of terror lives London look Lovecraft M. R. James Machen Mare Middx mind monster moral Moreau murder narrative narrator nature Neuromancer night novel obsession partly past Pbk edn perception perhaps precisely Prendick problems Psycho psychological Pynchon question reader realisation relation repression seems seen sense sexual social Stevenson structure supernatural things Titus Groan trans vampire violence Wasp Factory Wilde York