Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Why Write About Horror?
	What Is Horror Fiction?
	American and British Horror Literature Before the Twentieth Century
	International Horror
Part One 1901—1939, The Golden Age
	Chapter 1 British Writers
		The "Classical" Tradition(s)
		The Machen Quartet
		Breaks with Tradition
		Naturalism and the Psychological Ghost Story
		Traditionalists and Holdovers
		New Voices
		The War Years
		Voices of the Twenties
		The End of the Golden Age
	Chapter 2 American Writers
		The Great Age of the American Ghost Story
		East Coast versus West Coast
		The East Coast School
		Sexism and Great Age Content
		East Coast Membership
		The West Coast School
		Exceptions
		After Weird Tales' Debut
	Chapter 3 Horror in the Pulps
		Before Weird Tales
		Weird Tales
		H. P. Lovecraft
		The Weird Tales Crew
		What Lovecraft and Weird Tales Wrought, and What They Did Not
		Outside of Weird Tales
		The Shudder Pulps
		The End of Weird Tales' Golden Age
	Chapter 4 Horror in the Mainstream
		The Creation of the Mainstream
		Before the Great War
		America
		England
		After the War
	Chapter 5 Outside the Anglosphere, 1901—1939
		Africa
			Angola
			Lesotho
			Nigeria
			South Africa
		The Americas
			Argentina
			Brazil
			Chile
			Costa Rica
			Cuba
			Honduras
			Jamaica
			Mexico
			Peru
			Uruguay
			Venezuela
		Asia
			India
			China
			Indonesia
			Japan
			Korea
			Philippines
		Europe
			Austria
			Belgium
			Croatia
			Czech Republic
			Denmark
			Finland
			France
			Germany
			Italy
			Latvia
			Poland
			Portugal
			Romania
			Russia and the Soviet Union
			Spain
		The Middle East
			Egypt
			Iran
			Turkey
Part Two 1940—1970, Midcentury Frights
	Chapter 6 American Writers
		Ray Bradbury
		Robert Bloch
		Richard Matheson
		Charles Beaumont
		The Group
		Fritz Leiber
		Midcentury Writers of Horror
		One-Shots
	Chapter 7 British Writers
		The Changing Landscape
		The 1940s
		The 1950s
		The 1960s
	Chapter 8 Horror in the Mainstream
		The Effects of the War
		American Writers
		Writers of the United Kingdom
	Chapter 9 Horror on the Cheap
		Pulps and Digests
		Paperbacks
		Comics
	Chapter 10 Outside the Anglosphere, 1940—1970
		Africa (Angola, Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa)
		Africa
			Angola
			Congo
			Guinea
			Ivory Coast
			Lesotho
			Nigeria
			Senegal
			Sierra Leone
			South Africa
		The Americas
			Argentina
			Barbados
			Bolivia
			Brazil
			Chile
			Colombia
			Costa Rica
			Cuba
			Ecuador
			Guyana
			Mexico
			Uruguay
			Venezuela
		Asia
			India
			Indonesia
			Japan
			Malaysia
			Philippines
		Europe
			Belgium
			Czechoslovakia
			France
			Germany
			Italy
			Portugal
			Spain
		The Middle East
			Israel
			Syria
			Turkey
Part Three 1971—2000, The Boom Years
	Chapter 11 Horror as Big Business
		American Best Sellers
		The British Response
		In the Mainstream
	Chapter 12 The Boom and Bust of the 1980s and 1990s
		Full-Timers
		Part-Timers, Tourists, and Dabblers
		RPG Fiction
	Chapter 13 Short-Fiction Authors, 1971—2000
		From Before the Boom
		The 1970s Generation
		The 1980s Generation
		The 1990s Generation
	Chapter 14 Horror for Children and Young Adults
		1900—1960
		The 1960s
		The 1970s
		The 1980s
		The 1990s
	Chapter 15 Outsiders Writing Horror
		African American Writers
		Australian Aboriginal Writers
		Latinx Horror
		Native American Horror
		Queer Horror
	Chapter 16 Outside the Anglosphere, 1971—2000
		Africa
			Congo
			Guinea
			Kenya
			Mauritania
			Nigeria
			Rwanda
			Senegal
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		The Americas
			Argentina
			Brazil
			Chile
			Colombia
			Costa Rica
			Cuba
			Ecuador
			El Salvador
			Guatemala
			Guyana
			Mexico
			Puerto Rico
			Québec
			Venezuela
		Asia
			China
			India
			Indonesia
			Japan
			Malaysia
			Pakistan
			Philippines
			Singapore
			South Korea
			Taiwan
			Thailand
		Europe
			Austria
			Belgium
			Czech Republic
			Den mark
			Finland
			France
			Germany
			Italy
			Latvia
			Poland
			Russia
			Spain
			Switzerland
		The Middle East
			Egypt
			Israel
			Jordan
			Kuwait
			Syria
			Turkey
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index