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  • Tolkien’s Library
    Oronzo Cilli
    “A combination of circumstances means that we know more about J.R.R. Tolkien than about almost any other author, from any period. Nevertheless, in spite of all the efforts, there remains a certain opacity about Tolkien, both professionally and personally.As this book shows, there is a way to bridge that gap which has not been previously attempted: a fact which makes this work b...
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    44,81 €

  • The Secret Ceremonies
    The works of Anglo-Welsh author Arthur Machen (1863–1947) made an indelible and ever-expanding impression in the genre of horror and the supernatural, and have always inspired both ardent advocates and determined opponents. In the 1890s, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K. Jerome, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle admired his work, but the majority of critics were hostile, and he was often seen as...
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    24,67 €

  • Suicide and the Gothic
    Suicide and the Gothic is the first study of the representation of suicide in Gothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Poems, short stories, novels, films and video games are covered from European, American and Asian contexts. ...
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    169,86 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral s...
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    17,62 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral s...
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    31,08 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 13 (2019)
    S. T. Joshi
    TABLE OF CONTENTSThe Lovecraftian Solar System ....... Fred S. Lubnow“Hungry fer Victuals I Couldn’t Raise nor Buy”: Anthropophagy in Lovecraft ....... Duncan NorrisThe Rings of Cthulhu: Lovecraft, Dürer, Saturn, and Melancholy ....... Andrew Paul Wood“The Cats”: An Environmental Ditty ....... Cecelia Hopkins-DrewerLovecraft’s Consolation ....... Matthew Beach“The Inability of ...
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    16,24 €

  • Reality Simulation in Science Fiction Literature, Film and Television
    Heather Duerre Humann
      In recent decades, science fiction in both print and visual media has produced an outpouring of story lines that feature forms of simulated reality. These depictions appear with such frequency that fictional portrayals of simulated worlds have become a popular sci-fi trope-one that prompts timeless questions about the nature of reality while also tapping into contemporary deb...
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    61,47 €

  • Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 3
    Elena Tchougounova-Paulson / Sean Moreland
    This third collection, like the previous two, contains the most novel and cutting-edge scholarship in Lovecraftiana, taking familiar topics down unfamiliar paths, amply demonstrating that H. P. Lovecraft's work has more resonance in modern culture than ever before. All in all, a bumper crop of criticism and anaysis that will appeal to academics and Lovecraft's most erud...
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    21,86 €

  • Lord of a Visible World
    H. P. Lovecraft / HPLovecraft
    H. P. Lovecraft’s letters are among the most remarkable literary documents of their time, and they are a major reason why he has become such an icon in contemporary culture. He wrote tens of thousands of letters, some of them of great length; but more than that, these letters are incredibly revelatory in the depth of detail they provide for all aspects of his life, work, and th...
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    27,09 €

  • The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
    Horace Walpole
    The Castle Of Otranto tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above. This inexplicable event is particularly ominous in light of an ancient prophecy, 'that the castl...
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    17,61 €

  • H.G. Wells and All Things Russian
    Galya Diment
    ’H. G. Wells and All Things Russian’ examines Wells’s keen interest in Russian culture and development, and how Russia and the Soviet Union were, in turn, profoundly influenced by his works and his visits to the country. ...
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    180,18 €

  • Women’s Space
    From the Star Wars expanded universe to Westworld, the science fiction western has captivated audiences for more than fifty years. These twelve new essays concentrate on the female characters in the contemporary science fiction western, addressing themes of power, agency, intersectionality and the body. Discussing popular works such as Fringe, Guardians of the Galaxy and Mass E...
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    57,54 €

  • Justice and Popular Culture
    George A. Gonzalez / George AGonzalez
    This book examines how the Star Trek franchise does more than reflect and depict the political currents of the times. Gonzalez argues that Star Trek also presents an argument as to what constitutes a just, stable, thriving society. By analyzing Star Trek, this book argues that in order to obtain true democracy and justice the productive forces of society must be geared toward ...
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    115,76 €

  • Guarding the Mermaid
    Eve Langlais
    Duty or love? Will a guard make the right choice? Becky needs a scoop to make her mark in the journalism world and gets her chance when she’s hired as a nurse for a top-secret clinic hidden in the Rockies. What she doesn’t expect is to become one of the patients and kept prisoner.The doctors are playing God and have found a way to change people. Change them into something else....
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    10,41 €

  • Dead Reckonings No. 25 (Spring 2019)
    Ramsey Campbell
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    7,38 €

  • Tolkien and the Classics
    The origins of this collection, and of the whole Tolkien and the Classics project, are twofold. First, there is the ever-growing awareness of the importance of making scholars and critics realize how much J.R.R. Tolkien is, in all respects, a great literary classic, comparable to those already accepted as ‘canonical’. Second, the desire to offer a publication that could be enjo...
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    30,46 €

  • Ngaio Marsh
    Bruce Harding
     Considered one of the 'Queens of Crime'--along with such greats as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham--Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a gifted writer and a celebrated author of classic British detective fiction, as well as a successful theater director. Best known for the 32 detective novels she published between 1934 and 1982, she was appointed a Dame Comma...
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    73,13 €

  • A Nurse for the Wolfman
    Eve Langlais
    An exciting new series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Eve Langlais that is sure to thrill and chill.What happens when a nurse falls for the wolfman?The job offer is a dream come true. Three times her usual salary. Free meals and a suite. The only catch?Margaret can’t tell anyone about it.Hidden in the Rockies, the clinic is well protected and…odd. It doesn...
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    10,42 €

  • Necronomicon Revelations -or- Crossing to the Abyss
    Joshua Free
    Long-lost remnants of ancient Mesopotamian religion, Anunnaki mythology and hidden mysteries of Babylonian magic are coherently revealed in the first complete esoteric guide to a very real underground “Necronomicon Legacy” from the world renown “Mardukite Research Organization” developed by Joshua Free.World renown expert and Director of the modern “Mardukite Research Organizat...
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    22,10 €

  • How Superheroes Model Community
    Nathan Miczo
    How Superheroes Model Community examines superheroes as a community engaged in protecting the public sphere. Nathan Miczo highlights and explores the interpersonal and communicative practices that are necessary to being a member of such a community. ...
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    50,51 €

  • England’s Secret Weapon
    Amanda J Field
    England’s Secret Weapon examines the way Hollywood used Sherlock Holmes in a series of fourteen films that spanned the years of World War II in Europe, from The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1939 to Dressed to Kill in 1946. Basil Rathbone’s portrayal of Holmes has influenced every actor who has subsequently played this popular character on film, TV, stage and radio, yet the film...
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    14,78 €

  • Neoliberal gothic
    A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe. ...
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    171,07 €

  • The Gothic and death
    An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms. ...
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    36,90 €

  • Eleanor Cameron
    Paul V Allen
    Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science fiction novels of all time, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroo...
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    42,78 €

  • Ages of the Flash
    Joseph J Darowski
    While many American superheroes have multiple powers and complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast. This simplicity makes his character easily comprehendible for all audiences, whether they are avid comic fans or newcomers to the genre, and in turn he has become one of the most iconic figures in the comic-book industry. This collection of new essays serves as a stepping-stone t...
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    40,70 €

  • Bride of Destiny
    Sovella Brown Thompson
    BRIDE OF DESTINY, a mystery based on real events. Our protagonist, Debra Martin is asked to return to her family home for her grandfather's funeral after being away for twenty years. However, a funeral is not all she returns to. The chanting in the night did not bother her until she realized that a voodoo ceremony was going on in the house, her new house that her grandfathe...
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    7,38 €

  • Medieval Crime Fiction
    Anne McKendry
    Combining elements of medievalism, the historical novel and the detective narrative, medieval crime fiction capitalizes upon the appeal of all three--the most famous examples being Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose (one of the best-selling books ever published) and Ellis Peters’ endearing Brother Cadfael series. Hundreds of other novels and series fill out the genre, in sett...
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    57,26 €

  • Sublime Conclusions
    Robert K. Weninger / Robert KWeninger
    One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings imagine, with panic or pleasure, the end of their species. Complementing her visions of a world-encompassing natural plague (The Last Man, 1826) and man-made technological self-eradication (Frankenstein, 1818), the third – and oldest – paradigm of how to depict humankind’s demise is the ...
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    24,93 €

  • Native American Mystery Writing
    Mary Stoecklein
    Though mystery, crime, and detective fiction are some of the most popular genres in the world, little scholarship currently exists regarding Native American writers and how they add new dimensions to this widely read literary form. Rather, the majority of scholarship examines the depiction of Native characters from the perspective of non-Native authors. Native American Mystery ...
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    122,55 €

  • The Great Monster Magazines
    Robert Michael 'Bobb' Cotter
    This is a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. ''Monster magazine'' is a blanket term to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters, both of which are illustrated in comic book style and printed in black and white. The book describes the rise and fall of these ...
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    43,99 €


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