The book won the 1975 Locus Poll Award for Best Single Author Collection. The story "Gonna roll the bones" won both the 1967 Nebula Award and the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. The collection contains twenty-two fantasy, SF and horror novelettes and short stories.
This is great reading for those of us who at one point were obsessed with Klingons, Jedis, Dr. Who, astronomy, dinosaurs, drama club, marching band, crushes, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Quiz Bowl, etc. This is a must read for any geek, geeklover, or undercover geek. I'm totally doing the "live long and prosper hand signal" right now.
The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart
Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings to bear his comprehensive knowledge of obscure and forgotten works, as well as of the horror masterpieces.
Added by: Nemini | Karma: 405.93 | Non-Fiction, Other | 20 October 2010
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Supernatural Horror In Literature
Supernatural Horror in Literature is a long essay surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927 and revised in 1933-1934. It was first published in 1927 in the one-shot magazine The Recluse.
The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written.
