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  • The Mad Butterfly's Ball

    The Mad Butterfly's Ball is an essential compendium of stories dedicated to the lurking horror and profound wonder of those that live, largely unseen, in the world around us—the enigmatic insect! Featuring original and new works by Clive Barker, Jeffrey Thomas, Kaaron Warren, Paul Di Filippo, Eugen Bacon, and many more, alongside classics of the subgenre, The Mad Butterfly's Ball is the largest ... Read more

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  • Capitalism: A Horror Story

    Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination

    by Jon Greenaway ...
    A horror-story history of capitalism and its relationship to the haunted and the gothic, and a manifesto of Gothic Marxism, which finds revolutionary hope in the nightmare of modernity.What does it mean to see horror in capitalism? What can horror tell us about the state and nature of capitalism?Blending film criticism, cultural theory, and philosophy, Capitalism: A Horror Story examines ... Read more

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  • Horror and Religion

    New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality

    Edited by Eleanor Beal, Jon Greenaway ...
    Series series Horror Studies
    Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes of race and sexuality; the texts under discussion chart the way in which the religious imagination has been ... Read more

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  • Theology and Vampires

    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    What can vampires teach us about God? How can they reshape the way we think about religion, and our relationship with the divine? Through a thorough analysis of the relationship between theology and vampires, Theology and Vampires provides a glimpse into the versatility of the vampire as a tool for theological enquiry. Contributions to the volume assess vampires and their role in articulating ... Read more

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  • Haunted

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    An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created themLeo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity.Continuing his interest in the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Dracula

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  • Divine Horror

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    From Rosemary's Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or affirm the moral order. Churches provide sanctuary, clergy cast out evil, religious icons become weapons, holy ground becomes battleground--but all of these may be turned from their original purpose.This collection of new essays explores fifty years of ... Read more

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

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  • Harry Potter's Bookshelf

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