What Is Horror Fiction? American and British Horror Literature Before the Twentieth Century International Horror

Home , Charles Beaumont, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction Why Write About Horror? What Is Horror Fiction? American and British Horror Literature Before the Twentieth Century International Horror

Part One: 1901-1939, The Golden Age

Chapter 1 British Writers The “Classical” Tradition(s) The Machen Quartet Breaks with Tradition Naturalism and the Psychological Ghost Story Traditionalists and Holdovers New Voices The War Years Voices of the Twenties The End of the Golden Age Chapter 2 American Writers The Great Age of the American Ghost Story East Coast vs West Coast The East Coast School Sexism and Great Age Content East Coast Membership The West Coast School Exceptions After Weird Tales Chapter 3 Horror in the Pulps Before Weird Tales Weird Tales H.P. Lovecraft The Weird Tales Crew What Lovecraft and Weird Tales Wrought, and What They Did Not Outside of Weird Tales The Shudder Pulps The End of Weird Tales’ Golden Age Chapter 4 Horror in the Mainstream The Creation of the Mainstream Before the Great War America England After the War Chapter 5 Outside the Anglosphere 4

Africa: Angola, Lesotho, Nigeria, South Africa The Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines Europe: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain Middle East: Egypt, Iran, Turkey

Part Two: 1940-1970, Mid-Century Frights

Chapter 6 American Writers Ray Bradbury Robert Bloch Richard Matheson Charles Beaumont The Group Fritz Leiber Mid-Century Writers of Horror One-Shots Chapter 7 British Writers The Changing Landscape The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s Chapter 8 Horror in the Mainstream The Effects of the War American Writers Writers of the United Kingdom Chapter 9 Horror on the Cheap Pulps and Digests Paperbacks Comic Books Chapter 10 Outside the Anglosphere Africa: Angola, Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa The Americas: Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela Asia: India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines Europe: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain The Middle East: Israel, Syria, Turkey

Part Three: 1971-2000, The Boom Years

Chapter 11 Horror as Big Business American Bestsellers The British Response 5

In the Mainstream Chapter 12 The Boom and Bust of the 1980s & 1990s Full-Timers Part-Timers, Tourists, and Dabblers R.P.G. Fiction Chapter 13 Short Fiction Authors, 1971-2000 From Before the Boom The 1970s Generation The 1980s Generation The 1990s Generation Chapter 14 Horror for Children 1900-1960 The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s Chapter 15 Outsiders Writing Horror African-American Writers Australian Aboriginal Writers Latinx Horror Native American Horror Queer Horror Chapter 16 Outside the Anglosphere Africa: Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Québéc, Uruguay Asia: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand Europe: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland Middle East: Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Turkey

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index