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S. T. Joshi is one of the leading authorities on weird fiction, and in this World Fantasy Award-winning study he provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the entire range of weird fiction from antiquity to the present day. For the first time, the full contents of both print volumes are available together in a single electronic book file. As Joshi’s landmark survey of supernatural literature begins, the focus is on weird fiction from the Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 1700 B.C.E.) to the end of the nineteenth century. Joshi focuses on key works of Greek and Latin literature that introduced many long-enduring motifs in weird literature. Moving on down through Dante, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Milton, Joshi provides a compact overview of the several different strands of Gothic fiction, beginning with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) and culminating with Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), with detailed discussions of Ann Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, Mary Shelley, and others. Edgar Allan Poe was a watershed in the history of weird fiction, and his fusion of psychological and supernatural horror was pioneering. He was followed by the prolific Irish writer J. Sher

Author

S. T. Joshi

Publisher

Hippocampus Press

Published

2015

Language

EN