A Dark Night's Dreaming
Subtitle: Contemporary American Horror Fiction (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Contributors: Tony Magistrale (Editor); Michael A. Morrison (Editor)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781570030703
Subjects: Horror & ghost stories; Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American Horror Fiction; American English; English; Horror; USA; Literary Criticism; History and criticism; Horror tales, American
First sentence: Horror has figured prominently on the American literary scene since Charles Brockden Brown deftly appropriated the conventions and devices of the late-eighteenth-century British Gothic to peculiarly American ends in Wieland (1789).