Broschiertes Buch

Crawling Horror

Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird

Herausgeber: Leaf, Janette; Butcher, Daisy

Beschreibung

With expert notes on how each tale contributed to insect horror literature, Janette Leaf and Daisy Butcher are your field guides for a tour through classic insect encounters from the minds of Edgar Allan Poe, E. F. Benson, Clare Winger Harris and many more.

Autor

Janette Leaf is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, and has presented on Richard Marsh's late Victorian bestseller, The Beetle, and nineteenth-century Egyptology in London and the provinces. She is also a reviewer for Cambridge University Press and the British Society for Literature and Science. Daisy Butcher is a Doctoral Student working on the Open Graves, Open Minds Project at the University of Hertfordshire. Her study focuses on depictions of the feminine in gothic and weird fiction, including particular discussion of female mummies, vampires, and of course, the killer plant.

Produktdetails

• British Library Tales of the Weird
• Verlag: British Library Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 186mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780712353496
• ISBN-10: 0712353496
• Artikelnr.: 60982298