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by Matt Cardin


  St. Clair, Henry, 86

  steampunk, 608

  Steeger, Harry, 687

  Sterling, George, 756

  Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894), 28, 334, 768–770

  The Amateur Emigrant, 769

  birthplace of, 769

  “The Body Snatcher,” 231, 232

  burgeoning interest in, 770

  childhood of, 769

  critical regard for, 768, 770

  Cunningham, Alison, and, 769

  death of, 770

  duality between the appearance of things and their actuality, 769–770

  education of, 769

  health of, 769

  An Island Voyage, 769

  literary output of, 769, 770

  modernism and, 769

  “Olalla,” 768

  popularity of, 768, 769, 770

  religious ideas and the folklore of Scotland, 769

  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 62, 334, 338, 584, 773–776

  “Thrawn Janet,” 796

  travels of, 769

  Stoker, Bram (1847–1912), 770–773

  birthplace of, 770

  death of, 772

  Dracula, 64, 78, 108, 159–160, 162, 339–342, 772

  dramatic rights to Dracula, 341

  education of, 772

  full name of, 770

  historical Dracula and, 342

  illness of, 771

  in the Irish civil service, 772

  Irving, Henry, and, 771, 772

  The Jewel of Seven Stars, 138, 489–490, 627, 771

  Le Fanu, J. Sheridan, and, 539

  literary output of, 771, 772

  as Lyceum Theatre business manager, 770, 772

  meeting Dracula for the first time, 771

  at Trinity College, Dublin, 771–772

  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 773–776

  adaptations of, 775

  concept of the double in, 774

  cultural impact of, 775

  degeneration, 774–775

  double or doppelgänger, 338, 774

  doubles, doppelgängers, and split selves, 338

  fears about the city and, 775

  first publication of, 773

  gender, sexuality, and the monsters of literary horror, 62

  iconic representation of urban horror, 334

  inspiration for, 773

  “mad scientist” figure, 584

  plot summary, 774

  popularity of, 774

  processes of writing and editing, 774

  Showalter, Elaine, on, 775

  transformations of Jekyll and Hyde, 773, 798

  Strange Doings in Strange Places, 86

  Strange Happenings, 86

  Straub, Peter (1943–), 776–779

  awards to, 776

  Blue Rose Trilogy, 777

  character of Tim Underhill, 777

  childhood trauma, 778

  children of, 776

  collaborations with Easton, Michael, 777

  collaborations with King, Stephen, 777

  critical opinion of, 776

  current residency of, 776

  A Dark Matter, 777

  date and place of birth, 776

  as an editor, 778

  education of, 776

  film adaptations, 776–777

  first published works of, 776

  Floating Dragon, 777

  full name of, 776

  Ghost Story, 383–385, 776

  The Green Woman, 777

  influence of jazz on, 778

  Interior Darkness: Selected Stories, 778

  “The Juniper Tree,” 778

  Kiernan, Caitlín R., and, 345

  King, Stephen, on, 776

  Koko, 777

  novels of, 776–777

  poetry of, 776

  “Pork Pie Hat,” 778

  Seafront Press, 776

  Shadowland, 777

  short stories of, 777–778

  significance of, 776

  The Skylark, 777

  supernatural vocabulary and Christian values, 147

  The Talisman, 777

  wife of, 776

  Strengell, Heidi, 512

  Strieber, Whitley (1945–)

  Communion, 300–302

  Sturgeon, Theodore, 39

  Sturgeon, Theodore (1918–1985), 779–782

  “Bianca’s Hands,” 780

  “Blabbermouth,” 781

  “Bright Segment,” 780

  The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (1994–2010), 781

  “Fluffy,” 781

  “The Graveyard Reader,” 781

  importance of, 779

  “It,” 780

  “Killdozer,” 780

  monstrous child motif, 780

  More Than Human, 779

  novels of, 781

  “The Perfect Host,” 780

  “Prodigy,” 780

  “The Professor’s Teddy Bear,” 780

  “Shadow, Shadow on the Wall,” 780

  “Shottle Bop,” 781

  Some of Your Blood, 781

  “So Near the Darkness,” 781

  “Talent,” 780

  “Twink,” 781

  “Vengeance Is,” 781

  Venus Plus X, 779

  “The World Well Lost,” 779

  the sublime, 782–784

  aesthetics and, 782

  in ancient literature, 782

  Burke, Edmund, on, 782, 783

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, on, 783

  definition of, 782

  eighteenth-century thinkers and, 782–783

  horror and, 782, 783

  in horror criticism, 783

  Kant, Immanuel, on, 783

  Longinus’s Peri Hypsous, 20

  “Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime” (Burke), 782

  A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (Burke), 73–74, 783

  philosophy of existence, 783

  Poe, Edgar Allan, on, 783

  Romantic philosophy and, 783

  significance of, 783

  “On the Sublime” (Burke), 782

  Supernatural Horror in Literature (Lovecraft), 783

  Summa Theologica (Aquinas), 466

  Summers, Montague (1880–1948), 784–786

  avoidance of his work by researchers, 785

  as a Catholic priest, 785

  contribution to the critical methodologies used for studying vampires, 785

  death of, 785

  education of, 784–785

  excerpts from his first two books, 784

  full name of, 784

  important occult works of, 785

  prose of, 785

  significance of, 784

  stigma of, 785

  surrealism, 786–787

  Breton, Andre, 786

  Carrington, Leonora, 786

  definition of, 786

  Ducornet, Rikki, 786

  effects of, 786–787

  The Fashionable Tiger (Ferry), 786

  fiction and, 786–787

  in films, 786

  founder of, 786

  influences on, 786, 787

  The Lost Traveller (Todd), 786

  as a method of creation, 786

  paintings and, 786

  Swedenborg, Emanuel, 402, 403, 539, 794

  Swinburne, Algernon, 82

  Tales of Other Days (Akerman), 86

  Tales of Terror (St. Clair), 86

  Tales of the Dead (ed. Utterson), 85

  “The Tapestried Chamber” (Scott), 67

  Tartt, Donna, 134

  Taylor, D. W., 672

  Telegraph, The, 172

  Tem, Melanie (1949–2015), 789–790

  awards to, 789

  Blood Moon, 789

  closures of, 789

  death of, 790

  family relationships, 789

  “Mama,” 789

  novels of, 789
/>   reputation of, 789

  Wilding, 789

  The Yellow Wood, 789

  Tennyson, Alfred, 81

  Terrill, Rogers, 687

  Terrors of the Night (Nashe), 15

  terror versus horror, 790–792

  Dracula, 791

  emotional reactions and, 790–791

  horror defined, 791

  King, Stephen, on, 791

  Lovecraft, H. P., and, 791

  Radcliffe, Ann, on, 790–791

  story structure and, 791

  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 791

  terror defined, 791

  “Witches and Other Night-Fears,” 791

  Tessier, Thomas (1947–), 792–793

  awards to, 793

  current residency of, 792

  date and place of birth, 792

  education of, 792

  The Fates, 792

  Finishing Touches, 792

  Fogheart, 793

  literary output of, 792

  The Nightwalker, 792

  Phantom, 792

  poetry of, 792

  Rapture, 792–793

  Remorseless, 793

  Seafront Press, 776

  Secret Strangers, 793

  Shockwaves, 792

  short fiction of, 792, 793

  writing style of, 792

  Thacker, Eugene, 46, 747

  Thal, Herbert Van, 709

  “There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding” (Kirk), 793–794

  awards to, 793

  Dantesque trilogy, 794

  first appearance of, 793

  Kirk, Russell, 793–794

  Kirk’s heroes and villains, 794

  plot summary, 793–794

  “They” (Kipling), 795

  as an elliptical work, 795

  first publication of, 795

  inspiration for, 795

  Kipling, Rudyard, 795

  Maugham, Somerset, on, 795

  plot of, 795

  Spiritualism, 795

  Thomas, Jeffrey, 105

  Thomson, Christine Campbell, 87

  “Thrawn Janet” (Stevenson), 796

  first publication of, 796

  Menikoff, Barry, on, 796

  plot summary, 796

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 796

  Tichbornes curse, 187

  timeline of

  1900 to 1950 horror, 32t

  1900 to 2000 horror, 38t

  ancient world horror, 4t

  the Brontë sisters, 246t

  early modern era horror, 16t

  eco-horror, 58–59t

  eighteenth century horror, 22t

  ghost stories, 1816–1945, 69t

  Gothic novels, major, 74t

  horror anthologies, 88t

  horror comics, 94t

  horror literature through history, xxxv–xlviii

  Internet age horror, 113t

  Machen, Arthur, 578t

  Middle Ages horror, 11t

  nineteenth century horror, 27t

  science fiction and horror (selective), 103–104

  small press, specialty, and online horror (selected), 154t

  twenty-first century horror, 45t

  video (and computer) games horror, 124t

  Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 16, 17

  Todd, Ruthven

  The Lost Traveller, 786

  Todorov, Tzvetan

  on Machen, 400–401, 405

  on The Turn of the Screw (James), 802–803

  Tolstoy, Leo, xxx

  Tor, 154, 157

  torture-porn, 149

  Townshend, Dale, 73, 168

  Trachiniae (Euripides), 5

  transformation and metamorphosis, 797–799

  biology and, 798

  definitions of, 797

  difference between, 797

  historical, 797

  horror fiction and, 798

  “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” (Ellison), 798

  “The Last Feast of Harlequin” (Ligotti), 798

  Medieval romance texts, 798

  most common type of metamorphosis, 797

  One Thousand and One Nights, 797–798

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE), 797

  redemptive transformation of the individual, 798

  religious and scientific thinking and, 798

  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 798

  transformation and horror literature, 797

  transformative creatures, 798

  transubstantiation, doctrine of, 798

  A Treatise of Specters, or, An History of Apparitions (Bromhall), 85

  A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind (Prichard), 78

  Tremblay, Paul

  A Head Full of Ghosts, 113–114, 448

  Trilby, 799–800

  adaptations of, 800

  anti-Semitism, 800

  doppelgänger, 800

  Du Maurier, Daphne, 799

  hypnotism and, 800

  influence on Stoker’s Dracula, 800

  plot summary, 799

  publications of, 799

  significance of, 800

  Tryon, Thomas

  Harvest Home, 146, 661

  The Other, 39, 117, 661

  Turner, James, 191

  The Turn of the Screw (James), 800–803

  adaptations of, 803

  critical opinions of, 801

  first publication of, 800

  frame narrative, 800

  plot summary, 800–803

  Spiritualism and, 763

  Todorov, Tzvetan, on, 802–803

  Twain, Mark, 269

  28 Days Later (2002), 44, 871

  The Twilight Zone, 117

  The Twilight Zone (television show), 37

  the uncanny, 805–807

  in cinema, 806

  definition of, 805

  examples of, 806

  Freud, Sigmund, and, 805

  Jentsch, Ernst, on, 805

  as a key concept of the Gothic genre, 806

  Lacan, Jacques, 806

  in literary criticism, 805, 806

  psychoanalytical feminist philosophers and, 806

  “The Sand-man” (Hoffmann) and, 805–806

  Universal Pictures, 138, 627–628

  University of Maine Library, 510

  Unknown fiction, 33, 34

  unreliable narrator, 807–809

  Booth, Wayne, on, 807

  definition of, 807

  early uses of, 808

  mad narrators, 808–809

  spotting of, 808

  “The Tell-Tale Heart” (Poe), 807

  “Tell-Tale Heart” (Poe) and, 808–809

  uses of, 808

  Wuthering Heights (Brontë ) and, 808

  Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (Joshi), 76, 493

  Utterson, Sarah, 85–86

  VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), 336

  vampire bats, 160

  vampire fiction from Dracula to Lestat and beyond, 157–163, 162

  Bürger, Gottfried August, 157

  Byron, Lord, 157, 158

  Carmilla (Le Fanu), 159

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 157

  Dark Shadows (1966–1971), 162, 163

  Dracula (Stoker), 159–160, 162

  Draculas the world over in film, television, and video games, 160–161

  In a Glass Darkly (Le Fanu), 159

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 157

  I Am Legend (Matheson), 162

  Interview with the Vampire (Rice), 162, 163

  Keats, John, 157, 158

  “The Mysterious Stranger” (Wachsmann), 158

  “A Mystery of the Campagna,” 160

  new character trait of, 162

  Polidori, John, 158

  short fiction featuring vampire characters, 162

  sympathetic vampire, 162–163

  vampire bats, 160

  The Vampire Chroni
cles (Rice), 162

  vampire renaissance, 162

  “The Vampyre” (Polidori), 158

  Varney the Vampire: Or, The Feast of Blood, 158

  “Vespertilia” character, 160

  Villa Diodati ghost story competition, 158

  vampires, 811–815

  Auerbach, Nina, on, 814

  “For Blood Is the Life” (Crawford), 306, 812

  Byzantium film, 814

  Calmet, Antoine Augustin, 21

  Carmilla (Le Fanu), 272–274, 539

  Carrion Comfort (Simmons), 274–275

  characteristics of literary vampires are consistent across time and place, 811

  character of Dracula himself, 811–812

  “Christabel” (Coleridge), 158, 296

  contemporary women writers and, 813–814

  definition of, 339

  as embodiments of contagion, 811

  epitome of metamorphosis, 814

  female vampirism, 64–65, 813

  first vampire tale by a woman, 811

  in German poetry, 811

  “The Giaor” (Byron), 77

  A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night film, 814

  “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (Leiber), 386–388

  the god Kali, 811

  “I, the Vampire” (Kuttner), 525

  I Am Legend (Matheson), 43, 107, 162, 461–462, 592

  Interview with the Vampire (Rice), 40, 119, 162, 163

  I Travel By Night (McCammon), 599

  La Morte amoureuse (Clarimonde), 381

  Last Train from Perdition (McCammon), 599

  “La Vampiresse” (Lee), 541

  Les Revenants (Revenants), 370

  Le Ville-Vampire, 370

  Life Brothers, 814

  loathsome title vampire, 812–813

  male vampires, 812

  “Masquerade” (Kuttner), 526

  The Mind Parasites, 609–611

  Nosferatu film, 341, 813

  penny dreadful and, 811

  Some of Your Blood (Sturgeon), 39

  soucouyants, 814

  Summers, Montague, 784

  as a sympathetic individual, 40

  Vampire Chronicles (Rice), 139, 162, 706–707

  The Vampire Diaries, 142

  vampire mothers, 813

  vampire of war, 811

  vampiric fiction, 119

  vampirism-focused fictions, 110

  “The Vampyre” (Polidori), 811

  Varney the Vampire (Rymer & Prest), 26, 75, 123, 158, 811, 817

  as viral infections, 43–44

  “Vlad the Impaler,” 811

  A Whisper of Blood, 319

  “The Vampyre” (Polidori), 68, 75, 77, 129, 616, 815–816

  VanderMeer, Ann

  The Weird, 166

  VanderMeer, Jeff, 46, 105, 633, 816–817

  Acceptance, 817

  Annihilation, 817

  Authority, 817

  awards, 817

  birth and childhood, 816

  Borne, 817

  on Cisco, Michael, 292

  City of Saints and Madmen, 105, 816

  Finch, 816

  on Kiernan, Caitlín R., 503

  New Weird, 167, 633

  Shriek: An Afterword, 816

  Southern Reach Trilogy, 105, 817

  Veniss Underground, 105

  The Weird, 166, 817

  Van Helsing (2004), 18

 

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