by Matt Cardin
“Dreamscape” series, 574
early life of, 573
“E-Branch trilogy,” 574
first two novels of, 573
influences on, 573
“Psychomech” series, 574
short stories of, 574
“Titus Crow” series, 573, 652
Weinberg, Robert, on, 574
writing style of, 573
The Lurker at the Threshold, 575–576
Cthulhu Mythos, 575–576
date published, 575
Derleth, August, and, 575
first part of, 575
“posthumous collaborations,” 575
second part of, 575
third part of, 575
The Lurking Horror (Infocom, 1987), 123
Lynch, David, 338
macabre, banalization of, 37
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 15
MacDonald, George
Phantastes, 314
Macfarlane, Robert, 487–488
Machen, Arthur (1863–1947), 577–582
“Angels of Mons” legend, 579–580
association of child-like figures with supernatural forces, 580–581
birthplace of, 577
“The Bowmen,” 579
“The Bright Boy,” 580
The Children of the Pool, 580
The Chronicle of Clemendy, 577
critical reaction to, 578
critical recognition of, 580
death of his first wife, 579
Don’t Look Now, 580
“A Double Return,” 577
on “The Ghost Ship,” 383
“The Great God Pan,” 132, 166, 286, 334, 399–401, 578
The Green Round, 580, 581
The Hill of Dreams, 579
later life of, 581–582
legacy of both fiction and nonfiction, 581
“The Lost Club,” 577
“N,” 581
“The Novel of the Black Seal,” 641–642
the numinous, 645
Order of the Golden Dawn, 579
Ornaments in Jade, 579
“Out of the Earth,” 580
output during the Great War, 580
Quilter, Harry, on, 578
religiosity of, 581
on the roots of horror literature, 143
second wife of, 580
significance of, 166, 577
Starrett, Vincent, 580
The Terror, 580
The Three Impostors, 166, 578, 579
timeline of, 578
Todorov, Tzvetan, on Machen, 400–401
“unhealthy” literature, 579
War and the Christian Faith, 580
Wells, H. G., on, 578
“The White People,” 285, 579, 844
“Mackintosh Willy,” 582–584
author of, 582
awards to, 582
Campbell, Ramsey, 582, 583
dialogue in, 584
“loophole for a natural explanation,” 583
plot summary, 582–583
tradition and, 583
MacRitchie, David, 642
MAD magazine, 93
mad scientist, 584–585
archetype during the nineteenth century, 584–585
archetype during the twentieth century, 585
as a cliché, 585
Frankenstein and, 584
historical sources of, 584
magical realism, 692, 734
The Magus (Barrett), 333
major genres of literature, 3
Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of the Witches), 15, 466
Malpertuis (Ray), 585–587
date of first English translation, 585
date of first publication, 585
as an example of a latter-day Gothic romance, 585
Flemish-language film adaptation of, 586
frame narratives, 585–586
plot summary, 585–586
themes in, 586
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Potocki), 587–588
admirers of, 588
complexity of, 587, 588
inspiration for, 587
occultism, 588
Polish film adaptation of, 588
Potocki, Count Jan, 587
publication history of, 587
synopsis of, 587
Marasco, Robert
Burnt Offerings, 254–255, 419
Mare, Walter de la, 30
the haunted house story, 419
Marked to Die: A Tribute to Mark Samuels, 45
Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger, 334
Marsh, Richard, 178
The Beetle, 340, 682
Martin, George R. R. (1948–), 588–590
The Armageddon Rag, 589
awards to, 589
Dozois, Gardner, on, 589
Fevre Dream, 589
Game of Thrones, 588, 589
“Meathouse Man,” 589
“The Monkey Treatment,” 589
“Nightflyers,” 589
“The Pear-Shaped Man,” 589
Sandkings, 725–727
scripting and producing for television, 589
short form horror fiction, 589
“The Skin Trade,” 589
Song of Ice and Fire series, 588, 589
“The Masque of the Red Death” (Poe), 590–592
comic undercurrents in, 590
date and place first published, 590
excerpt from, 591
film adaptations, 590–591
as a ghost story, 69–70
Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales and, 590
plot summary, 590
Mather, Cotton, 19
Matheson, Richard (1926–2013), 592–594
Beaumont, Charles, and, 592
“Born of Man and Woman,” 34
date and place of birth, 592
death of, 594
“Disappearing Act,” 646
in film and television, 592, 593
full name of, 592
hallmarks of his oeuvre, 592
Hell House, 419, 421, 429–431
I Am Legend, 43, 107, 162, 461–462, 592
importance of, 594
as Logan Swanson, 462
“Nightmare at 20,000 feet,” 593
personal demons of, 593
Serling’s The Twilight Zone (1959–1964), 37
The Shrinking Man, 37, 592
significance of, 592
“The Southern California Writer’s Group,” 592
writing style of, 594
Maturin, Charles Robert (1782–1824), 594–596
Bertram, 595
characteristics of, 594
date and place of birth, 594
death of, 595
education of, 594
marriage of, 594
Melmoth the Wanderer, 26, 72, 78, 144, 187, 595, 603–605
pseudonym use, 595
Scott, Sir Walter, and, 595
Maugham, Somerset, 795
Maupassant, Guy de (1850–1893), 596–597
“Boule de suif” (Ball of Fat), 596
The Dark Side: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Kellett), 596
death of, 597
frame story, 596
full name of, 596
the haunted house story, 419
“The Horla,” 338, 344, 443–444, 596
Kellett, Arnold, on, 596
“La Parure,” 596
“Lui?” (tr. as The Terror; 1883), 596
“Qui sait?” (Who Knows? 1890), 596
war stories, 597
Mayr, Dallas. See Ketchum, Jack (1946–)
McBryde, James, 485–486
McCammon, Robert R. (1952–), 597–600
Baal, 597
Bethany’s Sin, 597–598
Blue World, 600
The Border, 599
Boy’s Life, 599
The Five, 600
full name of, 597
Gone South, 599
I Travel By Night, 599
Last Train from Perdition, 599
Mine, 598, 599
Mystery Walk, 598
significance of, 597
Speaks the Nightbird, 599–600
Stinger, 599
Swan Song, 510, 599
Usher’s Passing, 598–599
The Wolf’s Hour, 599
McCarron, Kevin, 171
McCarthy, Cormac, 44, 206, 405
McCauley, Kirby, 118
McClure, Marguerite “Maggie,” 238
McDowell, Michael (1950–1999), 600–601
The Amulet, 600
Blackwater, 600
Candles Burning, 601
“Death Collection” of, 601
death of, 601
education of, 600
film and television work, 601
full name of, 600
influence of Eudora Welty, 601
pseudonyms of, 601
Southern Gothic novels, 600, 601
McGrath, Patrick (1950–), 602–603
archive of his professional materials, 603
Asylum, 602
awards to, 602
critical study of, 602
father of, 602
Ghost Town, 602
influences on, 602
Martha Peake, 602
reputation of, 602
Zlosnik’s monograph Patrick McGrath, 602
McIlwraith, Dorothy, 33
McKee, Lucky, 501
McMahon, Gary, 270
Medea (Euripides), xxxii, 5
Medea (Seneca), 7
Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin), 603–605
Balzac, Honoré de, on, 605
Baudelaire, Charles, on, 605
Breton, André, on, 605
contemporary reviews of, 604–605
Crocker, John Wilson, on, 604
in France, 605
full title of, 603
the Gothic as a critical mode, 604
Maturin, Charles Robert, 604
plot summary, 604–605
reputation of, 605
Sebastian Melmoth the Wanderer, 604
The Songs of Maldoror and, 605
structure of, 604
Menikoff, Barry, 796
men’s magazine market, 36
mental disturbance, 78
Merrell, Susan Scott
Shirley: A Novel, 482–483
Metamorphoses (Lucius Apuleius), 7
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 7
Metcalfe, John (1891–1965), 605–607
at Arkham House, 606
Arm’s-Length, 606
“The Bad Lands,” 606
Brenner’s Boy, 606
“The Double Admiral,” 606
education of, 605
English regional dialect use, 606
father of, 605
The Feasting Dead, 606
full name of, 605
and“Funeral March of a Marionette,” 606
Judas, and Other Stories, 606
“Mortmain,” 606
“Mr. Meldrum’s Mania,” 606
The Smoking Leg, and Other Stories, 606
“Time-Fuse,” 606
T’Strike (one-act play), 606
Meyrink, Gustav (1868–1932), 607–608
arrest of, 607
birth name, 607
characteristics of his fiction, 607
exhibition of his work, 607
The Golem, 390–391, 607
noteworthy works of, 607
religious faith and, 607
“The Mezzotint” (James), 67
Middle English romances, first, 13
Middleton, Richard
“The Ghost Ship,” 382–383
Miéville, China (1972–), 46, 105, 167, 608–609
awards to, 608–609
Bas-Lag Series, 608
The City & the City, 608, 609
education of, 608
Embassytown, 608
Iron Council, 609
Kraken, 608
as a Marxist, 608
“new weird” movement, 608
Perdido Street Station, 608
Railsea, 608
The Scar, 608
steampunk, 608
Un Lun Dun, 608
“weird fiction,” 608
writings of, 608
Mikami, Shinji, 121
millenarianism, 53
Milne, A. A., 721
Milton, John
Paradise Lost, 144, 334
The Mind Parasites, 609–611
horror pedigree of, 610
Husserl, Edmund, 610
Jung, Carl, 610
manipulation of humanity, 610
The Mind Parasites, 610
The Outsider, 610
plot summary, 609–610
reflection upon disarticulation, 610
vanguard of modern American vampire, 609
Wilson, Colin, 609
Misery (King), 611–612
as autobiographical, 611
date published, 611
The Eyes of the Dragon, 611
film and theater adaptations, 611
genesis for, 611
the “hobbling” scene, 611
King, Stephen, 611, 612
metafictional “trilogy,” 611
plot summary, 611
significance of, 612
misogyny, 63
Mitchell, David, 42
Moers, Ellen, 377, 742
The Monk (Lewis), 612–615, 820
adaptations, 614
ancestral curse, 187
canonical writers inspired by, 614
Catholicism, 107, 108, 144, 613
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, on, 168, 614
criticism of, 614
effect of, 23–24, 612
excerpts from, 613
the “female monk,” 614
as first novel of supernatural horror in English, 23
influences on, 614
“Lenore” and, 78
Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 547, 612, 820
Mathilda, succubus-like character, 334, 467
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe), 614, 632
plot summary, 612–614
popularity of, 23, 612
prominent themes in, 613
publication history, 612
Radcliffe, Ann, and, 614
reactions to, 168, 169
religious horror, events breeding, 144
rewriting of, 614
scandal of, 612
significance of, 73
in the twenty-first-century, 614
Valancourt Press 2013 edition of, 615
“The Monkey’s Paw” (Jacobs), 615–616
adaptations of, 616
date of first publication, 615
influence of, 615–616
inspiration for, 615
Jacobs, W. W., 615
plot summary, 615
monsters, 616–618
Darwinian evolution and, 617
definition of, 617
early examples of, 616
embedded meaning, 617
horror films and, 617
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,, 617
new monsters, 618
as products of cultural anxieties, 617
Psycho, 618
science fiction–influenced, 618
slasher genre, 618
in the twentieth century, 617–618
vampires, 616–617
Villa Diodati ghost story competition, 616
zombies, 618
See also gender, sexuality, and the monsters of literary horror
Moore, Alan
The Saga of the Swamp Thing, 96
Moore, Alan (1953–), 619–620
“The Courtyard,” 619
From Hell series, 619
Lovecraft, H. P., 619
Providence series, 619
reputation of, 619
> The Saga of the Swamp Thing, 619
significance of, 619
Moore, C. L., 525
“Shambleau,” 102
“moral insanity,” 78
Morrell, David (1943–), 620–621
birthplace of, 620
Black Evening anthology, 621
Fireflies, 620
First Blood, 620
on Grant, Charles, 397–398
horror anthologies and, 621
Klass, Philip, and, 620
literary output of, 620
Long Lost, 620
Nightscape anthology, 621
The Totem, 620
Morrison, Michael A., 672
Morrison, Toni (1931–), 621–622
awards to, 621
Beloved, 212, 622
date and place of birth, 621
Desdemona, 622
education of, 621
Faulkner’s Southern Gothic and, 621
ghost stories, 622
influence of, 621
influences on, 621–622
literary output of, 621, 622
Playing in the Dark (lecture collection), 622
Princeton University Library archive of, 622
at Random House, 621
significance of, 621
Morrow, W. C. (1854–1932), 622–624
The Ape the Idiot & Other People, 622–623
date of birth, 622
full name of, 622
“His Unconquerable Enemy,” 622, 623
A Man: His Mark, 624
notable stories of, 623
“Over an Absinthe Bottle,” 623
“The Pale Dice-Thrower,” 623
reputation as a horror writer, 622
Mosse, Kate, 42
Mostellaria (The Haunted House), 6
“Mr. Arcularis” (Aiken), 624–625
adaptations of, 625
Aiken, Conrad, 624
The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken, 624, 625
criticism of, 625
first publication of, 624
plot summary, 624–625
Schorer, Mark, on Ailen, 625
MS. Cotton Vitellius A XV, 85
mummies, 625–628
Balderston, John, 627
Carter, John, 627
as a character in horror literature, 625
in contemporary fiction, 628
Egyptomania, 627
interest in, 626–627
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Stoker), 627
King Tut, 627
“Lot No. 249” (Doyle), 627
mummification, 626
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned (Rice), 628
mummy defined, 625
The Mummy film, 627, 628
mummy movies, 627–628
notable mummy fictions, 626
and the rational world, 626
revenant defined, 625
“The Ring of Thoth” (Doyle), 627
“Some Words with a Mummy” (Poe), 627
“The Music of Erich Zann” (Lovecraft), 628–630
dates written and published, 628
forbidden and obscure knowledge, 629
horror of the cosmic void, 629
Lovecraft, H. P., 628
popularity of, 629
setting, 629
themes in, 629
Myers, Frederick, 338
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe), 630–632
Emily, 631–632