Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278).
Contents
Shirley Jackson: domestic horror -- THE PERSISTENCE OF SUPERNATURALISM: William Peter Blatty: the Catholic weird tale -- Stephen King: the king's new clothes -- T. E. D. Klein: urban horror -- Clive Barker: sex, death, and fantasy -- Ramsey Campbell: the fiction of paranoia -- THE ALTERNATIVES TO SUPERNATURALISM: Killing women with Robert Bloch, Thomas Harris, and Bret Easton Ellis -- Thomas Tryon: rural horror -- Peter Staub: from ghost to thriller -- PSEUDO- , QUASI- , AND ANTI-WEIRD FICTION: Robert Aickman: "So little is definite" -- Anne Rice: the philosophy of vampirism -- Thomas Ligotti: The escape from life -- Epilogue.
