| Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub Contributor(s): Tibbetts, John C. (Author), Wolfe, Gary K. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1476664927 ISBN-13: 9781476664927 Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Horror & Supernatural |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2016034959 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world--Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places, ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and effects. Stephen King describes Straub's style as a synthesis of horror and beauty. Drawing on interviews with Straub and featuring an exclusive interview with King, this study explores the work of the author who has been called a writer of rare wit and intelligence in a field beset with cynical potboilers (Douglas E. Winter, Washington Post, October 14, 1984). |
Contributor Bio(s): Tibbetts, John C.: - John C. Tibbetts is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Kansas., John C.: - John C. Tibbetts is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Kansas. |