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  • Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump

    Images from Literature and Visual Arts

    Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Apocalyptic Chic

    Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts

    This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s fear of extinction and its quest for survival -- in revenant, supernatural, or living human ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Supernatural Revamped

    From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

    This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Universal Vampire

    Origins and Evolution of a Legend

    Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Images of the Modern Vampire

    The Hip and the Atavistic

    In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film

    Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933

    by Erik Butler ...
    For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its ... Read more

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: Master of the Macabre - Complete Tales and Iconic Poems

    Journey into the heart of darkness with 'Edgar Allan Poe: Master of the Macabre - Complete Tales and Iconic Poems'. Indulge in the literary brilliance of Poe's haunting tales and entrancing poems, all packed into one mesmerizing compendium. Lose yourself in the world of 'The Black Cat', unravel the mystery of 'The Fall of the House of Usher', recite the enigmatic verses of 'The Raven', and attend ... Read more

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  • Fairy Tales

    THE GOLDEN BIRDA certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about ... Read more

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  • The Red Fairy Book

    by Andrew Lang ...
    "The Red Fairy Book" is indeed a collection of fairy tales edited by Andrew Lang. It was first published in 1890 as part of Lang's "Coloured Fairy Books" series, which included several volumes of fairy tales from various cultures."The Red Fairy Book" contains a diverse selection of stories from different countries and traditions, including well-known tales such as "Little Red Riding Hood," "The ... Read more

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  • Dark Hollow

    Delve into the depths of psychological suspense in this gripping mystery from Anna Katharine Green, author of The Leavenworth Case. An innkeeper is detained, tried and ultimately executed for a horrifying murder. Many years later, a mysterious woman pays a visit to the judge who presided over the case, identifying herself as the wife of the executed prisoner—and insisting that he was wrongfully ... Read more

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  • Bigfoot Observer's Field Manual

    Yah-ta-hey. Welcome! May I assume that you are interested in Forest Giants and wish to arrange your very own peaceful encounter? I won't tell you that it is easy. Nevertheless, it is possible and even probable — but only if you follow to the letter the systematic sugges tions contained within this manual.Take care, my friend. ... Read more

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  • The Violet Fairy Book

    by Andrew Lang ...
    This is a new collection of Fairy stories in continuation of the series which "The Blue Fairy Book" was the initial volume. ... Read more

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