Horror of the 20th Century
Product Description
An Illustrated History by Robert Weinberg
Published in 2000.
Hardbound
As long as there have been storytellers, audiences have sought stories that make their flesh creep and their blood curdle - stores that slither into the darkest corners of our psyches. These are the tales that have been read furtively under covers or retold in whispers by the light of campfires. From Horace Walpole to Stephen King, the masters of horror have offered us just such tales of the eerie and the spectral.
Author Robert Weinberg has assembled the best of these phantasmal visions in "Horror of the Twentieth Century". Here is a vivid recounting of the writers, illustrators, publishers, actors, and filmmakers who for more than two centuries have fed our hunger for the macabre. As a student of the field whose collection of 25,000 genre-related materials is among the finest worldwide, Weinberg is a uniquely qualified writer whose perspectives span the spectrum of horror.
"Horror of the Twentieth Century" begins with English author Horace Walpole who, in 1765, gave birth to the Gothic novel "The Castle of Oranto." Mary Shelley plundered new depths of darkness with "Frankenstein", and late nineteenth century readers feasted voraciously on Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw." Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne each cast their unique spell on tales of the weird.
As the modern era has unfolded, horror has crept, howled, and slimed its way into the twentieth century on celluloid and paper, and Weinberg reviews the silents and talkies, the comics, the paperbacks, and hardcovers - including such haunting and immortal creations as Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Phantom of the Opera.
This compilation spotlights the creative risk-takers who ensured that no matter how many stakes are driven through its heart, the horror story lives to stir our nightmares.
Published in 2000.
Hardbound
As long as there have been storytellers, audiences have sought stories that make their flesh creep and their blood curdle - stores that slither into the darkest corners of our psyches. These are the tales that have been read furtively under covers or retold in whispers by the light of campfires. From Horace Walpole to Stephen King, the masters of horror have offered us just such tales of the eerie and the spectral.
Author Robert Weinberg has assembled the best of these phantasmal visions in "Horror of the Twentieth Century". Here is a vivid recounting of the writers, illustrators, publishers, actors, and filmmakers who for more than two centuries have fed our hunger for the macabre. As a student of the field whose collection of 25,000 genre-related materials is among the finest worldwide, Weinberg is a uniquely qualified writer whose perspectives span the spectrum of horror.
"Horror of the Twentieth Century" begins with English author Horace Walpole who, in 1765, gave birth to the Gothic novel "The Castle of Oranto." Mary Shelley plundered new depths of darkness with "Frankenstein", and late nineteenth century readers feasted voraciously on Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw." Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne each cast their unique spell on tales of the weird.
As the modern era has unfolded, horror has crept, howled, and slimed its way into the twentieth century on celluloid and paper, and Weinberg reviews the silents and talkies, the comics, the paperbacks, and hardcovers - including such haunting and immortal creations as Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Phantom of the Opera.
This compilation spotlights the creative risk-takers who ensured that no matter how many stakes are driven through its heart, the horror story lives to stir our nightmares.
