Grim phantasms
Subtitle: fear in Poe's short fiction
By: Michael L. Burduck
Series: Routledge library editions: The American novel -- volume 3; Routledge library editions -- v. 3.
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781315144603
Subjects: Fictional works; American Fantasy fiction; History and criticism; American Horror tales; Fear in literature; Récits d'horreur américains; Histoire et critique; Peur dans la littérature; LITERARY CRITICISM; American; General; Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This title, originally published in 1992, presents an assessment of Poe's short stories that treat horror, and more specifically how he manipulated the conventions of that horror to register subtly on the fears and phobias of his reading audiences. Short-stories examined include The Black Cat, Hop-Frog and Morella. This title also explores the theories of Stephen King and Benjamin Rush on the horror genre. This title will be of great interest to students of American Literature."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published in 1992 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half Title Page; title: Title Page; title: Copyright Page; title: Original Title Page; title: Original Copyright Page; title: Contents; title: Series Editor's Preface; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Chapter 1: Poe, Gothic Fiction, and Fear; title: Poe and the Notion of Fear; title: Some Characteristics of the Gothic; title: Poe's Strategy of Fear; title: Chapter 2: Aesthetic and Scientific Theories: Stephen King, Benjamin Rush, and Fear; title: Stephen King on Horror; title: Benjamin Rush and Nineteenth-Century Theories; title: Modern Psychological Perspectives; title: Specific Fears in Poe's Gothic Fiction; title: Chapter 3: Poe's Fiction of FearMetzengerstein, MS. Found in a Bottle, The Assignation, Shadow, and Silence; title: Berenice, Morella, Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, and William Wilson; title: A Descent into the Maelstrom, Eleonora, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Black Cat; title: The Premature Burial, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Cask of Amontillado, and Hop-Frog