Goth 3 - Spring-Heeled Jack and Other Terrors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Goth 3 - Spring-Heeled Jack and Other Terrors write by Paul Avon. This book was released on 2012-03-24. Goth 3 - Spring-Heeled Jack and Other Terrors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. MORE ESSENTIAL GOTHIC LITERATURE FOR DARKENED HEARTS. Dreadful fiction or terrible fact, Who in the name of God was that? Man, ghost, bear or bat? The terror o' London, Ol' Spring Heel'd Jack!Spring-Heeled Jack - the original London bogeyman: a character of immense strength, leaping great distances, garbed as a demonic bat, bear, or ghost. Jack has influenced not just the horror genre but also the realm of comic book and movie media. A legend born out of 19th century folk lore and gossip, was he fiction or fact? Nobleman or pauper? Was he dreamed up as an upper class lark, or the imagining of victorian drunks? Featuring the original 'penny dreadful' story of Spring-Heeled Jack this latest volume of Goth also features tales by Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Elliot, and more: The Return of the Soul, Each Man Kills, The Terror By Night, Chickamauga, A Victim of Higher Space, The Child, The Waif Woman, and The Door in the Wall. Step further down; down, down into darkness with GOTH!
The Marriage of Melody X (A Stage Play)
The Marriage of Melody X (A Stage Play) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Marriage of Melody X (A Stage Play) write by Paul Avon. This book was released on 2012-03-13. The Marriage of Melody X (A Stage Play) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Marriage of Melody X - A Stage Play by Paul Avon. In the not too distant future two people arrive in a hospital recreation room having undergone treatment for an accident neither can remember. One is semi-delusional, one has no identity. In a world of corporate sponsorship of medicine gone mad ROLAND and the strange MELODY discover that they may be closer than they first realised. Or are they each others worst enemies? Originally prepared for production in Los Angeles, this new updated edition of The Marriage of Melody X is as pertinent and disturbing today. Perhaps especially so! Written by Paul Avon. Licence available for performance. Recommended for advanced teen to adult readership and/or production.
The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic
The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic write by Clive Bloom. This book was released on 2021-02-03. The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack
The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack write by Karl Bell. This book was released on 2012. The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixed cultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. Through this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the differences, interactions and similarities between various types of popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts, street ballads, several series of "penny dreadful" stories (and illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, court accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack is impressively researched social history and provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English social and cultural history, folklore or literature. Karl Bell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.
A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged)
A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged) write by Montague Summers. This book was released on 2020-03-06. A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.
