The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural - 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 Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural write by Jack Sullivan. This book was released on 1986. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the first time ever, in a single volume, a comprehensive guide to horror and the supernatural in all the arts ... More than 50 essays and 600 entries covering authors, composers, visual artists, directors, actors, and movies that are connected in some way to horror tales or the supernatural. Also defines terms used with the supernatural.
A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock
A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock - 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 Companion to Alfred Hitchcock write by Thomas Leitch. This book was released on 2011-03-01. A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work. Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholars Covers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors’ silent films to his last uncompleted last film Details the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and audiences alike
American Supernatural Tales
American Supernatural Tales - 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 American Supernatural Tales write by S. T. Joshi. This book was released on 2013-10-01. American Supernatural Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. The book celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and—of course—Stephen King. This volumes also includes "The Yellow Sign," the most horrific story from The King in Yellow, the classic horror collection by Robert W. Chambers featured on HBO's hit TV series True Detective. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good collection of stories. Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short story “Sardonicus,” considered by Stephen King to be “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,” to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.
American Supernatural Tales
American Supernatural Tales - 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 American Supernatural Tales write by S. T. Joshi. This book was released on 2007-10-02. American Supernatural Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation’s brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and—of course—Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good addition to Penguin Classics. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Horror: Another 100 Best Books
Horror: Another 100 Best Books - 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 Horror: Another 100 Best Books write by Stephen Jones. This book was released on 2005-09-21. Horror: Another 100 Best Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Horror: Another 100 Best Books features one hundred of the top names in the horror field discussing one hundred of the most spine-chilling novels ever written. Each entry includes a synopsis of the work as well as publication history, biographical information about the author of each title, and recommended reading and biographical notes on the contributor. Author Ramsey Campbell also offers a new foreword to the book describing the evolution of horror over the past two decades — from the way it's written by a crop of new and exciting writers to the way it's received by a new market of readers. Horror: Another 100 Best Books will be the definitive guide to the tremendous library of horror fiction available today —a reference that no fan can live without.
