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  • Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump

    Images from Literature and Visual Arts

    Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Apocalyptic Chic

    Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts

    This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s fear of extinction and its quest for survival -- in revenant, supernatural, or living human ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Supernatural Revamped

    From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

    This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Images of the Modern Vampire

    The Hip and the Atavistic

    In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection ... Read more

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  • The Universal Vampire

    Origins and Evolution of a Legend

    Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore ... Read more

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  • Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film

    Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933

    by Erik Butler ...
    For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its ... Read more

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  • The Edgar Allan Poe Collection

    Edgar Allan Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for ... Read more

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  • Grimms' Fairy Tales

    Discover the timeless magic of "Grimms' Fairy Tales" — a captivating collection of enchanting stories that have delighted readers for generations. This beloved anthology, compiled by the renowned brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, offers a rich tapestry of folklore, fairy tales, and moral lessons rooted in German tradition. Perfect for readers of all ages, these tales transport you to worlds of ... Read more

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  • The Red Fairy Book

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    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. TO MASTER BILLY TREMAYNE MILES A PROFOUND STUDENT YET AN AMIABLE CRITIC ... Read more

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  • Dark Hollow

    Series series Unabridged Start Classics
    The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is convicted and executed for the crime. Many years later, "a woman in purple" shows up at the house of Ostrander, the respected judge who had sentenced the inn-keeper to be executed. This mysterious woman turns out to be the wife of the convicted man, but she does ... Read more

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  • The Violet Fairy Book

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Thirty-five traditional fairytales collated by famed anthropologist Andrew Lang, as one of his series of "Coloured" Fairy Books. Contains many forgotten classics like Schippeitaro, The Child Who Came From an Egg and How a Fish Swam in the Air. ... Read more

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  • Bigfoot Observer's Field Manual

    Yah-ta-hey. Welcome! May I assume that you are interested in Forest Giants and wish to arrange your very own peaceful encounter? I won't tell you that it is easy. Nevertheless, it is possible and even probable — but only if you follow to the letter the systematic sugges tions contained within this manual.Take care, my friend. ... Read more

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