Gothic
10 best books like Gothic (Fred Botting): Gothic Short Stories, Supernatural Horror in Literature, The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, The Art Museum, The Historical Novel, The Shadow Out of Time, The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult, Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism
| Author | David Blair |
| ISBN | 1840224258 |
Our university professor book club usually chooses short story collections we can read together so members who miss a discussion don't feel "behind" when the next meeting rolls around. We began reading this in the spring semester, but we postponed many sessions, resulting in a continuation into the...
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0486201058 |
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the most important American supernaturalist since Poe, has had an incalculable influence on all the horror-story writing of recent decades. Altho his supernatural fiction has been enjoying an unprecedented fame, it's not widely known that he wrote a critical history...
The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms
| Author | Helen Merrick |
| ISBN | 1933500336 |
In her cultural history of science fiction feminisms, Dr. Merrick explores the stories told about feminist science fiction by the various communities responsible for creating feminist sf culture, including authors, editors, fans, and scholars from across the disciplines. The Secret Feminist...
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity
| Author | Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke |
| ISBN | 0814731554 |
Uncovers the mindset and motives that drive far-right extremists
More than half a century after the defeat of Nazism and fascism, the far right is again challenging the liberal order of Western democracies. Radical movements are feeding on anxiety about immigration, globalization and...
| Author | Phaidon Press |
| ISBN | 0714856525 |
The Art Museum offers the museum experience without the boundaries of space and time. The unique structure of the book has been created by specialists in all fields of art, from institutions worldwide, who have collected together important and innovative works as they might be displayed in the ideal...
| Author | György Lukács |
| ISBN | 0850363780 |
Bastante difícil, mas também bastante iluminador. Os estudos sobre realismo europeu (Thomas Mann e outros) e as diversas considerações sobre Épica e Dramática na historiografia literária são sensacionais. O estudo que Lukács faz sobre o desenvolvimento e o "futuro" do romance histórico...
| Author | I.N.J. Culbard |
| ISBN | 1906838682 |
Miskatonic University, Arkham, 1908. Professor Nathaniel Peaslee collapses in front of a class of students, only coming to his senses five years later. Horrified to discover that his body has been far from inactive during the intervening period - and plagued by unsettling and outlandish nightmares...
| Author | Jerrold E. Hogle |
| ISBN | 0521794668 |
Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic...
| Author | Gary Lachman |
| ISBN | 1560256567 |
The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance, and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason, occultism was sidelined; only charlatans found any use for it. Occult ideas did not disappear, however, but rather went underground. It developed into a fruitful source...
Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism
| Author | Richard Smoley |
| ISBN | 0060783397 |
Who were the Gnostics? Were they heretics or visionaries who possessed the keys to Christianity's deepest secrets? Where did they come from? Did they leave any descendants? Why were they suppressed? Why do their ideas keep reappearing? Forbidden Faith is a comprehensive popular history of Gnosticism,...
| Author | Kenneth Hite |
| ISBN | 1780965982 |
In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. Ordered by Hitler to discover new weapons that he could unleash on his enemies, the occultists experimented with dark magics, mystical artifacts, and creatures...
Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present
| Author | Dan Mazur |
| ISBN | 0500290962 |
Comics, manga, bandes dessinees, fumetti, tebeo, historietas... no matter the name, they have been a powerful medium across four continents for decades. This is the history of comics around the world from the late 1960s to the dawn of the 21st century. Comics is a richly illustrated narrative of extraordinary...
The Red Goddess takes you through a tale of sex, drugs and violence.
This is an ecstatic journey through the unheard history of BABALON from Revelations, back through the Ishtar Gate and forward into a living modern magickal current.
This is an explicit and challenging vision of a very...
| Author | A. Merritt |
| ISBN | 1406955353 |
"THE SUPREME FANTASY GENIUS!" That's how The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy hails A. Merritt, author of The Lightning Witch. Isaac Asimov simply describes him as, "The most famous of fantasy writers." In this visionary writers controversial magnum opus, a small band of explorers--including...
| Author | David Seed |
| ISBN | 0199557454 |
Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science...
Tentacular fiction abounds in Bob Price's new mythos anthology Acolytes of Cthulhu. The anthology assembles twenty-five rare mythos tales, dating from the Thirties through the Nineties, from writers as diverse as Jorges Luis Borges, Gustav Meyrink, Manly Wade Wellman, and Neil Gaiman. Gahan Wilson...
| Author | Graham Allen |
| ISBN | 0415174759 |
No text has its meaning alone; all texts have their meaning in relation to other texts. Since Julia Kristeva coined the term in the 1960s, intertextuality has been a dominant idea within literary and cultural studies leaving none of the traditional ideas about reading or writing undisturbed.
Graham...
| Author | Mark Pilkington |
| ISBN | 1602398003 |
Part personal odyssey, part espionage adventure, and part social history, Mirage Men delves into the world of UFOs, those who believe in them, and those who would have us believe in them. This is not your average UFO book. Mirage Men explores the strange and symbiotic relationship between the U.S. military...
Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron (Revised Edition)
| Author | Spencer Kansa |
| ISBN | 1906958602 |
In the first-ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995), one of the most fascinating figures to emerge from the American Underground art world and film scene. As well as illuminating her early childhood and...
Understanding Manga and Anime
| Author | Robin E. Brenner |
| ISBN | 1591583322 |
Teens love it. Parents hate it. Librarians are confused by it; and patrons are demanding it. Libraries have begun purchasing both manga and anime, particularly for their teen collections. But the sheer number of titles available can be overwhelming, not to mention the diversity and quirky cultural...
| Author | Noël Carroll |
| ISBN | 0415902169 |
Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings to bear...
Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula
| Author | Christopher Frayling |
| ISBN | 0571167926 |
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| Author | Cathi Unsworth |
| ISBN | 1846686784 |
A tender ode to London in the 1960's - a novel with a twisted mystery at its heart.
Police Constable Pete Bradley has one year in the force and dreams of moving up the ladder. He's assigned as an aid to CID and working a routine nightshift with his partner when they stumble across a young woman's body....
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
| Author | Richard Davenport-Hines |
| ISBN | 0007435843 |
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution.
Britain in 1963 – Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy...
| Author | Evelyn Lord |
| ISBN | 0300116675 |
The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumors of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sensational as generations passed. This thoroughly...
