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  • Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump

    Images from Literature and Visual Arts

    by Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan, Dan M. R. Abitz, Christine Jackson, Jeffrey Barber, Emily A. O’Dell, Daniel Adleman, Kibiriti Majuto, Sue Matheson0, Kate Waites1, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández2, Claudia Schaefer3, Elisabetta Di Minico4, Matthew Paproth5, Tom Shapira6, Ryan Farrar7, David L. McNaron8, Todd K. Platts9 ...
    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

    $38.99 USD

  • Apocalyptic Chic

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

    by Alex M. Milmine, Katherine Allocco, Tanner Morrison, Maren Conrad, Casey Ratto, Daniel Schäbler, Sarah Heaton, Annika Rosanowski, Victoria Williams, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, Claudia Schaefer, Mark Poindexter, Scott Culpepper, Christine A. Jackson, Stephen J. Webley, Alyssa Ryan ...
    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

    by Simon Bacon, Jessica Birch, Scott Culpepper, Paul E. H. Davis, Sarah Heaton, Darren Hibbs, C. Austin Hill, Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, Tommy Kuusela, Kayleigh Murphy, Andrea Shaw Nevins, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, Claudia Schaefer, Masaya Shimokusu, Ashley Szanter, Mark David Ryan, Matthias Teichert, Cynthia Vinney, Caryn Wiley-Rapoport, Todd K. Platts ...
    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

    Edited by Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan ...
    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

    $47.99 USD

  • The Universal Vampire

    Origins and Evolution of a Legend

    Edited by Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan ...
    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

    $47.99 USD

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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

    $17.99 USD

  • The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

    Macabre Masterpieces, Gothic Horror, and Haunting Short Stories in One Legendary Collection

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    Dare to Enter the Shadowed World of Poe… ️ From the master of the macabre comes the ultimate anthology of dark imagination and psychological depth. "The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe" brings together every chilling, mysterious, and poetic story that has cemented Poe as a literary legend. Inside This Definitive Collection: The Tell-Tale Heart – A descent into guilt and madness The Fall of the ... Read more

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  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (Diversion Classics)

    by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm ...
    In this timeless collection, the brothers Grimm craft classic tales that shape the canon of children’s literature. Known for their dark undertones, these stories are perfect for lovers of magic, fantasy, and well-told tales. From famous staples like Rapunzel, The Frog Prince, and Hansel and Gretel, to its more obscure stories, GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES entertains and delights. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Red Fairy Book

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Series series Children's Classics
    Once upon a time there lived in the village of Montignies-sur-Roc a little cow-boy, without either father or mother. His real name was Michael, but he was always called the Star Gazer, because when he drove his cows over the commons to seek for pasture, he went along with his head in the air, gaping at nothing. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Dark Hollow

    by Anna Cathrine Green ...
    In a small New York town, the local legal professionals are discussing the nature of crime. Breaking the law, they conclude, does not pay in modern society, as the criminal will undoubtedly be caught. A mysterious hunchbacked stranger approaches the group to interject. "The smart ones don't make tracks," he says before disappearing. Meanwhile, just out of earshot, a woman has been murdered. Mrs. ... Read more

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  • The Violet Fairy Book

    by Andrew Lang ...
    The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source ... Read more

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  • Bigfoot Observer's Field Manual

    by Robert W. Morgan ...
    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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