by Matt Cardin
Varney the Vampire: Or, the Feast of Blood, 817–818
Vathek, 819-820
“Vespertilia” character, 160
Victor Surge, 115
Villa Diodati ghost story competition, 68, 74, 158, 616
The Village (2004), 18
Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), 141, 437
Vodou, 146
Wachsmann, Karl Adolf von
“The Mysterious Stranger,” 158
Wagner, Hank, 654
Wagner, Karl Edward, 821–822
Bloodstone, 821
Dark Crusade, 821
Darkness Weaves, 821
Death Angel’s Shadow, 821
Hour of the Dragon, 821
In a Lonely Place, 821
Night Winds, 821
People of the Black Circle, 821
Red Nails, 821
Why Not You and I, 821
Wakefield, H. R., 822–825
The Clock Strikes Twelve, 117
The Creep’s Omnibus, 822
“He Cometh and He Passeth By,”
The Walking Dead (Kirkman), 44, 872
They Return at Evening, 822, 824
Wallace, Diana, 70
Wallace, Sean, 156
Walpole, Horace, 21, 77, 825–826
The Castle of Otranto, 23, 72–73, 144, 187, 282–284, 825
the grotesque, 405, 783
the haunted house story and, 419, 825–826
The Mysterious Mother, 825
Wandrei, Donald, 33, 189, 330, 826–827
Don’t Dream: The Collected Fantasy and Horror of Donald Wandrei, 826
The Legend of Hillbilly John, 831
short stories, 826–827
Warm Bodies (Marton), 44
The War of the Worlds (Wells), 55
Warren, James, 94–95
Warren Publishing, 93, 94
Waters, Sarah
The Little Stranger, 71
Webster, John, 17
The Duchess of Malfi, 794
Weinberg, Robert, 121, 574
the weird, 44–45
The Weird (VanderMeer), 166
weird and cosmic horror fiction, 163, 163–168, 166
alternative defi nition of weird fiction, 164
“The Colour out of Space” (Lovecraft), 165
cosmic horror defined, 164
cosmic indifferentism, 164
Ice (Kavan), 166
important mid- to late twentieth-century works, 167
important weird writers of the 1990s, 167
interstitial relationship between weird fiction and contemporaneous literary movements, 166–167
Kafka, Franz, 167
Lovecraft, H. P., 163, 164, 165
Machen, Arthur, 166
At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft), 165, 192–194
New Wave movement(s) in speculative fiction., 167
New Weird, 167
Rampo, Edogawa, 167
Schulz, Bruno, 167
slipstream fiction, 166
Supernatural Horror in Literature, 164
Supernatural Horror in Literature (Lovecraft), 163
suspension of natural laws, 164
verisimilar writing techniques, 164–165
The Weird (2012), 166
The Weird (VanderMeer), 166
Weird Tales, 165, 827-829
the word “weird,” 165
weird fiction, 172
weird fiction magazine, first, 31
Weird Tales, 31, 87, 118, 165, 225, 424, 827–829, 846
Weird Tales alumni, 35
Wellman, Manly Wade, 829–831
magazine publications, 829–830
short stories, 829–831
Who Fears the Devil?, 829–830
Wells, H. G., 831–832
The Food of the Gods, 831
The Invisible Man (Wells), 473–474, 831
The Island of Doctor Moreau, 476–477, 584–585, 832
on Machen, Arthur, 578
The Shape of Things to Come, 831
Welty, Eudora, 832–835
essays, 833
One Writer’s Beginning, 833
The Robber Bridegroom, 833
short stories, 833–834
Wilde Net and Other Stories, 833
“The Werewolf” (Housman), 65
The Werewolf of Paris (Endore), 835, 837
werewolves, 65–66, 836–838
modern-day, 837
Wertham, Fredric
Seduction of the Innocent, 93, 170
Western rape culture, 65
Wharton, Edith, 68, 838–840
“Afterward,” 839
The Age of Innocence, 839
Ghosts, 839
The House of Mirth, 839
short stories, 839
Wheatley, Dennis, 840–841
The Devil Rides Out, 132–133, 331–332, 841
Gateway to Hell, 841
The Haunting of Toby Jugg, 841
The Ka of Gifford Hillary, 841
The Satanist, 841
Strange Conflict, 841
They Used Dark Forces, 841
To the Devil a Daughter, 841
“The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” (Ellison), 842
White, Edward Lucas
dreams and plots, 344
“Lukundoo,” 343
“The White Hands” (Samuels), 843
“The White People” (Machen), 844
Whitehead, Henry S., 32, 846
“Black Tancrede,” 846
Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales, 846
“The Shadows,” 846
“The Shut Room,” 846
“The Trap,” 846
West India Lights, 846
White Is for Witching (Oyeyemi), 64–65
“The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains” (Marryat), 65
“Who Goes There?” (Campbell), 192
“Why Horror Is Good for You (And Even Better for Your Kids)” (Ruth), 169
Wiene, Robert, 411
Wilde, Oscar, 145
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 338, 675–676
“Sebastian Melmoth,” 604
Wilderness Act, 57
“The Wild Huntsman” (Scott), 78
“The Willows,” 847–848
Wilson, Colin
The Mind Parasites, 609–611
overview of, 609
The Philosopher’s Stone, 609
Wilson, F. Paul, 849–850
The Keep, 849
Nightworld, 849–850
Reborn, 849
Reprisal, 849
The Tomb, 849–850
The Touch, 849
Windling, Terri, 319
Winter, Douglas E., xxxi
Winterson, Jeanette, 42
The Daylight Gate, 134–135
Wise, Herbert, 88
Wise, Robert, 422
Wisker, Gina, 64, 110
Horror Fiction: An Introduction (2005), 76
The Witch (Eggers), 18
The Witch (Middleton), 15
“Witches and Other Night Fears” (Lamb), 168
Witches and witchcraft, 850–853
Christianity and, 851–852
The Hammer of the Witches, 851
witch trials, 853
The Witch of Edmonton (Dekker, Ford and Rowley), 15
Wolfe, Thomas, 33, 366
Wollheim, Donald A., 89
The Macabre Reader, 116–117
More Macabre, 117
The Woman in Black, 854–855
The Woman in White (Collins), 75
Wonders of the Invisible World (Mather), 19
Wood, Robin
“An Introduction to the American Horror Film,” 97
on radical horror, 110
Wordsworth, William, 168, 293
World Fantasy Award, 855–856
past winners, 856
World Fantasy Convention, 855–856
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Brooks), 44, 870
Wright, Far
nsworth
The Moon Terror, 87
Wright, Edgar
Shaun of the Dead, 871
Wyndham, John, 857–858
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, 859–861
Beastnights, 860
A Candle for D’Artagnan, 860
Confrontation at Lepanto, 860
Crusader’s Torch, 860
Empires, Wars and Battles, 860
A Flame in Byzantium, 860
Hotel Transylvania, 859
In the Face of Death, 860
interview with, 861–863
The Lost Prince, 860
Messages from Michael, 860
Out of the House of Light, 860
“The Yellow Wall-Paper,” 863–865
young adult horror fiction, 168–174, 172
Appleyard, J. A., 169
Bettelheim, Bruno, 169
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), 172
chapbooks, 168
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 168
Comics Code Authority, 170
Coraline (Gaiman), 172
criticism of, 168–169, 172
Dare You? 172–173
EC Comics, 170
evaluations of young adult horror, 171
female teens and horror fiction, 170–171
Goosebumps (Cusick), 171
Harry Potter phenomenon, 171–172
horror comics, 170
McCarron, Kevin, 171
The Monk (Lewis), 168, 169
moral panic, 170, 171
Oblivion (2012), 172
penny dreadfuls, 170
Point Horror series, 171
Power of Five series (2005–2012), 172
Prom Dress (Bates), 171
pulp horror, 172
Rees, Celia, 170–171
Reynolds, Kimberley, 169, 170, 171
Richmond Park Academy, London, pupils of, 172
Ruth, Greg, 169
Seduction of the Innocent, 170
Springhall, John, 170
The Stone Testament (Rees), 172
Tales of Terror (Priestley), 172
therapeutic benefits of horror, 169
use of disgusting imagery, 169
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Bettelheim), 169
weird fiction, 172
Wertham, Fredric, 170
“Why Horror Is Good for You (And Even Better for Your Kids)” (Ruth), 169
Wild Boys of London; Or, The Children of the Night, 170
“Witches and Other Night Fears” (Lamb), 168
Wordsworth, William, 168
Zom-B, 172
zombie serials, 172
“Young Goodman Brown” (Hawthorne) 424, 684, 865–867
“Yours Truly—Jack the Ripper” (Bloch), 33, 227, 867–868
Žižek, Slavoj, 46
Zlosnik, Sue, 602
Zombies, 869–872
of the apocalyptic, 118–119
“The Death of Halpin Frayser” (Bierce), 327
Devil’s Wake, 349
Domino Falls, 349
establishment of zombie fiction, 44, 869–870
influences on, 44
“Lazarus” (Andreyev), 536
popularity of, 44
reinterpretation of, 40, 69–70
zombie apocalypse, 55
zombie serials, 172
Zork (Infocom, 1979), 122