Author, critic, and scholar John Clute has assembled exclusively for Payseur & Schmidt this dictionary of horror motifs. Thirty entries unravel the hidden meanings and dark secrets of horror literature. Entries such as Vastation, Double, Appointment in Samarra, and Cloaca, to name a few. Each is explored in-depth, with cross-references to Clute's Encyclopedia of Fantasy and a forthcoming encyclopedia of Horror.An addition, each entry is accompanied by a brand new illustration by one of thirty hand-picked artists. Cover and endpapers illustrated by Jason Van Hollander. Artists include:Adam GranoAndrio AberoArt ChantryCarson EllisChanda HelzerCorey LunnDiana SudykaDirk FowlerGuy BurwellHeiko MullerJacob CoveyJason Van HollanderJay RyanJeff KleinsmithJesse LeDouxJessica LynchJon DalyJulie MurphyKaela GrahamKaren KirchoffLesley ReppeteauxLittle Friends of PrintmakingMartin OntiverosMeg HuntMichael Michael MotorcycleMike KingS. BrittShawn WolfeSteven WeissmanTara McPherson165 pages. Signed and numbered limited hardback first edition of 500. Deluxe embossed and stamped cover with screen-printed sash.

The Darkening Garden a Short Lexicon of Horror

Literature & Fiction

John Clute

Genre Fiction

Payseur & Schmidt

For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Strokes is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone , the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first science fiction, fantasy and the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. It covers the period between 1966 and 1986.

Strokes: Essays and Reviews 1966-1986

Essays & Correspondence

Borgo Press

New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Reference

Peter Nicholls

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Orbit

The first edition of this encyclopaedia was published in 1979. This edition, now available in paperback, is intended to be more than a simple updating. The world of science fiction in the 1990s is much more complex than it was in the 1970s. The advent of game worlds, shared worlds, graphic novels, film and television spin-offs, technothrillers, sf horror and others has meant that the book has been expanded dramatically to cope with the complexities and changes in the genre. It contains well over 4300 entries - 1500 more than the original - and, at 1.3 million words, is over half a million words longer than the first edition.

SCORES: Re Views 1993-2003

World Literature

Beccon Publications

Canary Fever: Reviews

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