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THE HORROR READER
Horror has been one of the more spectacular and controversial genres in both
cinema and fiction – its wild excesses relished by some, vilified by many others.
Often defiantly marginal, it nevertheless inhabits the very fabric of everyday life,
providing us with ways of imagining and classifying our world: what is evil and
what is good; what is monstrous and what is ‘normal’; what can be seen and
what should remain hidden.
The Horror Reader
brings together twenty-nine key articles to examine the
enduring resonance of horror across culture. Spanning the history of horror in
literature and film, and discussing texts from Britain, the United States, Europe,
the Caribbean and Hong Kong, it explores a diversity of horror forms from classic
gothic literature like
Frankenstein
and
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,
to contemporary
serial killers, horror film fanzines and low-budget movies such as
The Leech
Woman
and
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The
Reader
opens with an introduction to ‘the field of horror’ by Ken Gelder,
and each thematic section includes an introductory preface. There is also a
comprehensive bibliography of horror literature.
Themes addressed include: the fantastic, horror and psychoanalysis,
monstrosities, different Frankensteins, vampires, queer horror, American gothic,
stalker and slasher films, race and ethnicity, lowbrow and low-budget horror, and
new regional horror.
Editor:
Ken Gelder
is Reader in English at the University of Melbourne. His books
include
Reading the Vampire
(Routledge 1994) and, as co-editor,
The Subcultures
Reader
(Routledge 1996).
THE
HORROR
READER
Edited by
Ken Gelder
London and New York
First published 2000
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.
© 2000 Ken Gelder for selection and editorial matter;
individual chapters © the contributors
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or
by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including
photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The horror reader / edited by Ken Gelder.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Horror tales—History and criticism. 2. Horror films—
History and criticism. I. Gelder, Ken, 1955–
PN3435 .H69 2000
809.3’8738–dc21
99–087412
ISBN 0–415–21355–X (hbk)
ISBN 0–415–21356–8 (pbk)
ISBN 0-203-13861-9 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-18297-9 (Glassbook Format)
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