Description:Horror fiction has existed since man's earliest days of telling tales around a fire. It deals with our most powerful emotions: fear, love, and hope. Horror is not merely stories of supernatural creatures and evil gods, not just an allegorical representation of the eternal struggle between good and evil—horror has many faces.In recent years, horror has produced a number of best-selling novels, but throughout its history the short story has always been horror's most vital form. In short fiction the boundaries of genre have been established, broken, and reestablished; the field has become differentiated and complex.Now published in three volumes, The Dark Descent is a comprehensive presentation of the evolution of the horror story, filled with significant and powerful works by the masters of the genre. The anthology contains stories by the bestsellers of today, as well as little-known gems from writers almost forgotten—and from authors not usually considered horror writers.The three volumes of The Dark Descent present the entire spectrum of horror fiction, from the psychological investigations of Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulker, Flannery O'Connor and Thomas M Disch, through the colourful supernatural allegories of J Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harlan Ellison, to the disturbing and dreadful stories of Oliver Onions, Edith Wharton and Gene Wolfe, stories that leave the reader in doubt of the very nature of reality.Contents:Introduction (1987), by David G. Hartwell.Smoke Ghost (1941), by Fritz Leiber.Seven American Nights (1978), by Gene Wolfe.The Signalman (1866), by Charles Dickens.Crouch End (1980), by Stephen King.Night-Side (1977), by Joyce Carol Oates.Seaton's Aunt (1922), by Walter de la Mare.Clara Militch (1897), by Ivan Turgenev (aka Posle smerti 1883).The Repairer of Reputations (1895), by Robert W. Chambers.The Beckoning Fair One (1911), by Oliver Onions.What Was It? (1859), by Fitz-James O'Brien.The Beautiful Stranger (1968), by Shirley Jackson.The Damned Thing (1893), by Ambrose Bierce.Afterward (1910), by Edith Wharton.The Willows (1907), by Algernon Blackwood.The Asian Shore (1970), by Thomas M. Disch.The Hospice (1975) by Robert Aickman.A Little Something for Us Tempunauts 1974), by Philip K. Dick.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Fabulous, Formless Darkness. To get started finding A Fabulous, Formless Darkness, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: Horror fiction has existed since man's earliest days of telling tales around a fire. It deals with our most powerful emotions: fear, love, and hope. Horror is not merely stories of supernatural creatures and evil gods, not just an allegorical representation of the eternal struggle between good and evil—horror has many faces.In recent years, horror has produced a number of best-selling novels, but throughout its history the short story has always been horror's most vital form. In short fiction the boundaries of genre have been established, broken, and reestablished; the field has become differentiated and complex.Now published in three volumes, The Dark Descent is a comprehensive presentation of the evolution of the horror story, filled with significant and powerful works by the masters of the genre. The anthology contains stories by the bestsellers of today, as well as little-known gems from writers almost forgotten—and from authors not usually considered horror writers.The three volumes of The Dark Descent present the entire spectrum of horror fiction, from the psychological investigations of Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulker, Flannery O'Connor and Thomas M Disch, through the colourful supernatural allegories of J Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harlan Ellison, to the disturbing and dreadful stories of Oliver Onions, Edith Wharton and Gene Wolfe, stories that leave the reader in doubt of the very nature of reality.Contents:Introduction (1987), by David G. Hartwell.Smoke Ghost (1941), by Fritz Leiber.Seven American Nights (1978), by Gene Wolfe.The Signalman (1866), by Charles Dickens.Crouch End (1980), by Stephen King.Night-Side (1977), by Joyce Carol Oates.Seaton's Aunt (1922), by Walter de la Mare.Clara Militch (1897), by Ivan Turgenev (aka Posle smerti 1883).The Repairer of Reputations (1895), by Robert W. Chambers.The Beckoning Fair One (1911), by Oliver Onions.What Was It? (1859), by Fitz-James O'Brien.The Beautiful Stranger (1968), by Shirley Jackson.The Damned Thing (1893), by Ambrose Bierce.Afterward (1910), by Edith Wharton.The Willows (1907), by Algernon Blackwood.The Asian Shore (1970), by Thomas M. Disch.The Hospice (1975) by Robert Aickman.A Little Something for Us Tempunauts 1974), by Philip K. Dick.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Fabulous, Formless Darkness. To get started finding A Fabulous, Formless Darkness, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.