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Out of the Shadows
James Arthur Anderson takes a structuralist approach to dissecting the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). This book offers both scholars and fans alike new insight into the work of the best-known American horror writer of the first half of the 20th century. As critic S. T. Joshi states: "Anderson's thorough familiarity with Lovecraft's texts (essays and letters, as well as stories), and with the best scholarship on Lovecraft, is evident on every page; and the fluidity with which he weaves together critical approaches into a unified commentary is enviable." Complete with chronology and bibliography.
Excavating Stephen King
Excavating Stephen King: A Darwinist Hermeneutic Study of the Fiction combines approaches from science and literary theory to examine the canon of Stephen King’s fiction work in a single critical study. James Arthur Anderson has devised the concept of Darwinist Hermeneutics as a critical tool to combine evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, biology, and literary Darwinism with other more conventional critical theory, including structuralism, narratology, semiotics, and linguistic analysis. Using this theory, Anderson examines King’s works in terms of archetypes and mythology, human universals, affective emotions, and the organization of story to create maximum suspense. This method brings new insights into King’s stories and broader implications for storytelling as a whole.
The Linguistics of Stephen King
Stephen King, “America’s Favorite Boogeyman,” has sold over 350 million copies of his books, becoming in effect the face of horror fiction. His influence on popular culture has drawn both strong praise and harsh criticism from reviewers and scholars alike. While his popularity cannot be overstated, his work has received relatively little critical attention from the academic world. Examining King’s fiction using modern literary theory, this study reveals the unexpected complexity of 22 short stories and novels, from Carrie to End of Watch. The author finds King using fantasy and horror to expose truths about reality and the human condition.
The Elf Chronicles
Christmas is a special time of year: a time to decorate plastic trees, string up tacky lights, drink too much egg nog, and talk to Santa and his elves. For those who think the Santa Claus saga is just a myth to blackmail children into being good little boys and girls, The Elf Chronicles offers a different look at what's really going on at the North Pole. From labor disputes to politics, from technology issues to selfies, the ageless inhabitants of Santa's world have seen it all. In this short story collection, James Arthur Anderson serves up and dishes out social satire in stories that sometimes are both naughty and nice. Revisit the past and look at the present through the lens of The Elf Chronicles.
"When Beauty Fires the Blood"
James Anderson Winn is the author of a general history of the relations between music and poetry (Unsuspected Eloquence, 1981) and a full-scale biography of a major English poet (John Dryden and His World, 1986). In this new book, he brings together his interdisciplinary expertise, his deep knowledge of Dryden, and his interest in currently urgent issues of gender, arguing that Dryden's complex and contradictory attitudes toward human sexuality helped shape his influential ideas about nature and art, beauty and virtue, imagination and judgment. In examining Dryden's artistic practice and theory from this perspective, Winn addresses topics not often noticed in previous studies of Dryden: his ...
The Monastery
In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip the volume over to read the second title), here's the thirty-first Wildside Double: THE MONASTERY: A NOVEL OF HORROR, by James Arthur Anderson. Fourteen-year-old Jake Harrison's summer vacation turns into a nightmare when his friend suddenly disappears in a field on the site of an old monastery grounds. It's up to Jake and his friends to discover the secret of the cursed abbey and locate their missing comrade--but their quest to solve the mystery leads them into horrors they never could have imagined. Will they be able to destroy the evil force within the monastery before it's too late? And if so, at what cost? Another great horror tale by the au...
