Horrors: Great Stories of Fear and Their Creators

by Rocky Wood, Glenn Chadbourne

Overview

That notorious evening at Villa Diodati when Lord Byron challenged his contemporaries to write a ghost story, his summons brought forth a mad doctor intent on reanimation and a vampire drunk with bloodlust. The night modern horror was born was notoriously dark and stormy, as were the lives of those who wrote the most fearsome—yet beloved—tales in literature, for those so gifted were also cursed. Horrors, a graphic novel, reveals in gruesome detail how Mary Wollstonecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of the genre were haunted by their monstrous creations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786462308
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	07/26/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	72 MB
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About the Author

Rocky Wood is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of many books about Stephen King. He is president of the Horror Writers Association and lives in Victoria, Australia. Glenn Chadbourne is a freelance artist who specializes in the horror/dark fantasy genre. His trademark pen and ink illustrations have enhanced the work of some of today’s hottest authors, including Stephen King’s The Secretary Of Dreams. He lives in Newcastle, Maine with his wife Sheila and their pug dog Rocket.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
Frankenstein 9
The Vampyre 69
Death of the Diodati 91
Beowulf 105
Shakespeare 117
The Rise of the Gothic Novel 123
Poe 127
Dracula 137
Conclusion 173
Afterword 183

Editorial Reviews

Quite an accomplishment. Wood does a masterful job of encapsulating each of the classic stories, hitting all of the important beats, and Chadbourne’s illustrations are just masterful. You could literally spend hours going over all of the fine details on each page”—Horror World

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