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The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature
This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction.
Forever Love
The mayor's campaign manager and son, Keith Washington seduces Gia Duncan, who runs a community organization, to keep her from derailing his father's reelection campaign, but with matchmaker Mamma Lou's help, he realizes that Gia is the only woman for him.
Love's Paradise
"For historian Sheri Summers, Crescent Island is an unspoiled treasure, and she hopes to keep it that way. If it means shutting down a new beachfront project that could destroy the historic site, so be it. Sheri can deal with developer Jordan Hamilton's anger. But what she doesn't count on is their combustible chemistry." -- P. 4 of cover.
Johnny Human
How generations of lives sometimes become intertwined through times of tragedy and even death. How an old bicycle repairman during the mid-1930s in the small town of Xenia, Ohio (Dalton "Wiz" Reinholdt), and a high school kid from the neighborhood (William Paul "Doc" Sanders II), Wiz's would-be apprentice, became friends. How Wiz's WWI stories would actually save Doc and his company's lives, just a few short years later, while closing in on the Nazi enemy in France and then into Germany in WWII. How liberating a Nazi concentration camp, and later a displaced persons camp, would change the course of Doc Sanders' life forever. How treating another human being as you would be treated mattered more than anything else in this world. Th is is Johnny Human written by Joseph Leo DeCelle.
The Global Vampire
The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.
Clamour and Mischief
A clamour of rooks. A mischief of magpies. A storytelling of crows. All the corvids - rooks and ravens, jays and jackdaws, crows and magpies - have the best collective nouns: from tidings and titterings, bands and trains, to a parliament, a party, and an unkindness. Clamour and Mischief is a veritable storytelling of adventures featuring corvidae, the bird family known for its intelligence, cunning and connection with folklore and urban legends. Our storytellers come from around the world and include award-winning and shortlisted writers, as well as fledgling authors in their professional debut. Herein are 16 striking stories imbued with the humour, darkness, wisdom and magic of the birds which inspired them. Take them as a jest, a guide, or a warning - but don't, whatever you do, ignore them! Clamour and Mischief is enacted by: Raymond Gates, GV Pearce, Eugen Bacon, Geneve Flynn, Alex Marchant, Jack Fennell, Lee Murray, RJK Lee, Dannye Chase, Narrelle M. Harris, R.D. White, Katya de Becerra, Jason Franks, George Ivanoff, Tamara M Bailey, Gabiann Marin.
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