Stephen King /
Bloom, Harold.
New York : Chelsea House Publishers,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- King and the literary tradition of horror and the supernatural / Ben P. Indick -- Stephen King : the good, the bad, and the academic / Don Herron -- Stephen King : powers of horror / Clare Hanson -- Tracing the gothic inheritance : Danse macabre / Tony Magistrale -- "The face of Mr. Flip" : homophobia in the horror of Stephen King / Douglas Keesey -- Some ways of reading The dead zone / Michael N. Stanton -- The sin eater : orality, postliteracy, and the early Stephen King / Linda Badley -- Needful things (1991) / Sharon A. Russell -- The rape of the constant reader : Stephen King's construction of the female reader and violation of the female body in Misery / Kathleen Margaret Lant -- Postmodern gothic : Stephen King's Pet sematary / Jesse W. Nash -- Cars are girls : sexual power and sexual panic in Stephen King's Christine / Edward Madden -- "Screaming while school was in session" : the construction of monstrosity in Stephen King's schoolhouse gothic / Sherry R. Truffin -- Afterthought / Harold Bloom.
King, Stephen, 1947-
Horror tales, American