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The gothic worlds of Peter Straub / John C. Tibbetts ; foreword by Gary K. Wolfe.
- Title
- The gothic worlds of Peter Straub / John C. Tibbetts ; foreword by Gary K. Wolfe.
- Author
- Tibbetts, John C.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3569.T6914 Z85 2016 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Wolfe, Gary K., 1946-
- Description
- x, 248 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world. Drawing on interviews with Straub and featuring an exclusive interview with King, this study explores the work of the author"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1 "The Magic Taxi": The Short Stories 19 -- 2 "A Dark Necessity": Straub's American Gothic 26 -- 3 "King of the Cats": The Fairy Tales 50 -- 4 "Protean Impostures": Straub and the Doppelganger 71 -- 5 "Datchery's Children": Stories of Crime and Detection 95 -- 6 "The Third Voice": Straub and Stephen King 146 -- 7 "Invisible Ink": On Writers and Writing 168.
- ISBN
- 9781476664927
- 1476664927
- OCLC
- 958084342
- SCSB-12848139
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library