horror literature

[Matt McKeon]

I've got to teach an elective next year called "Horror LIterature" So far I've got the novel "Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson, Dr. Jeyll and Mr. Hyde,

Some short stories: Bradbury's Small Assassin and the Man Upstairs, the Foghorn. I will probably throw a Poe or two in there, and maybe Bierce's Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge.

Any ideas, folks

 

[5fish]

You can not leave out H.P. Lovecraft... He had personal failings...

 

[5fish]

You know they wrote the first True Detective series with this horror book as a driving source...

The King in Yellow book by Robert W. Chambers

 

[jgoodguy]

You can not leave out H.P. Lovecraft... He had personal failings...

I second that. Students will be afraid to attend classes when it is read.

 

[diane]

Conan Doyle - the dark side of Sherlock Holmes. The Adventure of the Creeping Man, the Adventure of the Devil's Foot, The Man with the Twisted Lip. Good Victorian scare fest!

 

[5fish]

AMBROSE BIERCE... Was a horror writer many tales of horror... He followed Poe and he was follower by H.P. Lovecraft....

 

[5fish]

WASHINGTON IRVING... Was also a writer of many horror tales besides Sleepy Hollow...

 

[5fish]

You got me digging... This site deals with horror literature...

Ambrose Bierce's Savage, Morally Frustrated Ghost and Horror Stories

“GHOST, n. The outward sign of an inward fear” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary He was the successor of Edgar Allan Poe and a harbinger of H. P. Lovecraft, penning some of the most shocking, savage horror stories in the English language. His dark, literary universe was haunted by shadowy...

www.oldstyletales.com

 

[emma1029]

I've got to teach an elective next year called "Horror LIterature" So far I've got the novel "Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson, Dr. Jeyll and Mr. Hyde,

Some short stories: Bradbury's Small Assassin and the Man Upstairs, the Foghorn. I will probably throw a Poe or two in there, and maybe Bierce's Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge.

Any ideas, folks

That is really fantastic!! I would really like to know more about "horror literature"

 

[diane]

House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne. I've always been interested in 19th century spook lit! Hound of the Baskervilles - Sherlock again - the 1939 movie scared my dad all to pieces and he was an adult. Said it wasn't the movie...it was the dog's howl!

Speaking of dogs, there's Plague Dogs by Koontz. He may not be in the serious English lit category, but he can scare the stuffings out of you! Stephen King, who managed to make people terrified of every day things - clowns, cars, pets, and that cute little getaway ski place in the mountains!

 

[5fish]

I was looking for horror stories written by Black men or women... anything famous... none... This site again tried to answer the question... African-American folklore will have horror elements in those stories...

Genesis – The First Black Horror Writers/Storytellers by Linda Addison

Genesis – The First Black Horror Writers/Storytellers by Linda Addison Horror —n: an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shu…

horroraddicts.wordpress.com

Here this...

A short history of 20th century African-American horror literature | jessnevins.com

 

[Matt McKeon]

I was looking for horror stories written by Black men or women... anything famous... none... This site again tried to answer the question... African-American folklore will have horror elements in those stories...

Genesis – The First Black Horror Writers/Storytellers by Linda Addison

Genesis – The First Black Horror Writers/Storytellers by Linda Addison Horror —n: an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shu…

horroraddicts.wordpress.com

Here this...

A short history of 20th century African-American horror literature | jessnevins.com

Folklore of most, probably all cultures includes elements we would define as horror. A recent, very good book is "Lovecraft Country" by Matt Ruff. "Beloved" by Alice Walker is a ghost story, Zora Neale Hurston's study of Voodoo religion and mythology "Tell My Horse" includes scary legends.

 

[Matt McKeon]

I was looking for horror stories written by Black men or women... anything famous... none... This site again tried to answer the question... African-American folklore will have horror elements in those stories...

Genesis – The First Black Horror Writers/Storytellers by Linda Addison

Genesis – The First Black Horror Writers/Storytellers by Linda Addison Horror —n: an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shu…

horroraddicts.wordpress.com

Here this...

A short history of 20th century African-American horror literature | jessnevins.com

Great site! Thanks.

 

[diane]

Folklore of most, probably all cultures includes elements we would define as horror. A recent, very good book is "Lovecraft Country" by Matt Ruff. "Beloved" by Alice Walker is a ghost story, Zora Neale Hurston's study of Voodoo religion and mythology "Tell My Horse" includes scary legends.

Folklore can be very scary - the real story of Hansel and Grettle, for instance. Once read a book of Chinese folklore that made my hair stand up! Had no idea their vampires and werewolves were way more frightening than European versions.

I always thought the sub-set -urban folklore - was meant to be instructional - scare the lesson into you so you don't forget! Like the head-in-the-box on top of the car you're sitting in, or the phantom hitchhiker, the phone call from the killer inside your house, etc. (That one might need to be updated since there's no land lines anymore!)

 

[5fish]

Here is something you might be interested in ... Black teen horror

Creepy Tales and Strong Heroes: Black Main Characters in Teen Fiction

In anticipation of the All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology, Cordiah shares similar creepy tales with Black main characters.…

www.chipublib.org

 

[5fish]

 

[diane]

That's the best since the Claymation Death Matches! Trochee - stressed syllable in a foot of verse, isn't it? Poe used that a lot! (Of course, Poe won...)

PS
Old cartoon: Poe hunched over his desk with his arms over his ears, and his assistant saying, "I'm sorry, Mr Poe. I can't do anything about those bells!"

 

[Matt McKeon]

I reread Dracula, and also an even earlier vampire story, Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Faun(1872). Laura, an innocent girl in an isolated Styrian estate has an enigmatic house guest, the beautiful, languid Carmilla. Glad to have a friend at first, Laura is troubled by memories of the same girl when she was a small child. Carmilla draws closer to her, charming, seductive, purring that she loves Laura, as she slowly drains her. Camilla is an archetype, a predator who desires more than just gratification, but perform some sort relationship with Laura, and gain the girl's consent to her own destruction.

Carmilla is the original lesbian vampire, beloved of the male gaze everywhere, and versions of the story have been frequently filmed. One of the most interesting in the snark filled 2015 web series "Carmilla" set in a modern university, Laura is a idealistic student facing supernatural dangers that would daunt Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Carmilla is her slinky vampire roommate who becomes her ally in the fight against zombies, devils, vampires lovecraftian entities and handsy fratboys.

 

[Matt McKeon]

I reread Dracula, and also an even earlier vampire story, Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Faun(1872). Laura, an innocent girl in an isolated Styrian estate has an enigmatic house guest, the beautiful, languid Carmilla. Glad to have a friend at first, Laura is troubled by memories of the same girl when she was a small child. Carmilla draws closer to her, charming, seductive, purring that she loves Laura, as she slowly drains her. Camilla is an archetype, a predator who desires more than just gratification, but perform some sort relationship with Laura, and gain the girl's consent to her own destruction.

Carmilla is the original lesbian vampire, beloved of the male gaze everywhere, and versions of the story have been frequently filmed. One of the most interesting in the snark filled 2015 web series "Carmilla" set in a modern university, Laura is a idealistic student facing supernatural dangers that would daunt Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Carmilla is her slinky vampire roommate who becomes her ally in the fight against zombies, devils, vampires lovecraftian entities and handsy fratboys.

The web series "Carmilla" was sponsored by Kotex. One of the plots had the heroines commenting on the mountains of sanitary pads and thong liners(product placement!), since through magic intervention, all the women of the college had stopped having their periods. The flow of puns is unimpeded: "The Red Wing migration," "The redcoats aren't coming" or "There's no tomatos in the salad." Very funny!

 

[5fish]

Vald's the Impaler

The Devilstone Chronicles

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