The fantasy book : an illustrated history from Dracula to Tolkien / Franz Rottensteiner.

Beyond the frontiers of reason there extends the vast, shadowy world of fantasy, where monsters lurk in the gloomy depths, vampires flit across the face of the moon, and imagination reigns supreme. Franz Rottensteiner explores the world of fantasy as it appears in the literature of the West. The dar...

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Main Author: Rottensteiner, Franz
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Collier Books, 1978.
Edition:1st Collier books ed.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Gothic origins (Horace Walpole, the founding father/Two oriental fantasies: Vathek and The Saragossa Manuscript/The flowering of the Gothic novel/The Gothic in America) -- Early grandmasters of fantasy (E.T.A. Hoffman/Edgar Allan Poe/Gogol and Russian fantasy) -- Themes and characters (Vampires/A gentleman from Transylvania/Werewolves/The golem) -- Ghost and horror stories in Britain (Victorian ghost stories: Le Fanu and others/The classic English ghost story: M.R. James and others/Psychic subtleties: de la Mare, Machen, Blackwood) -- Horror in the USA (Bierce and the inheritance of Poe/The demonic vision of H.P. Lovecraft/Horror publishers: Arkham House and others/The Cthulhu Mythos/The magazines: Weird Tales and others) --- Alternative worlds (Imaginary lands: Wiliam Morris, Lord Dunsany and others/Sword and sorcery/J.R.R. Tolkien and the realms of Middle earth) -- Fantasy and popular fiction (Exotic adventure: Rider Haggard and others/Fantasy thrillers) -- The lighter side of fantasy (Lewis Carroll/Fantasy for children/Fantasy and humour/Unknown worlds) -- Fantasy and the search for meaning (Christian fantasy: C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams/Franz Kafka: the complexity of nightmare/Mervyn Peake: the world as castle) -- The international contribution (Latin America/France/Germany/Austria/Belgium and the Low Countries/Poland/Japan) -- Fantasy now. 
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