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Personally, I was looking for more information about individual books rather than a history of the field so I skimmed bits of this.
This book is a huge undertaking and it was impossible this was going to please everyone. It covers more areas of horror fiction than most surveys care to or even would consider looking at, but it's under 300 pages and Nevins is just here by himself. In addition to the expected anglosphere writers and the parts cut and paste from Horror Needs No Passport (I did wonder if there were some new entries in these parts, because there were profiles I didn't remember), there's sections on horror for chil...
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Concise, concise, concise. I'm writing a paper on Horror literature and this piece of non fiction is indispensable when it comes to information about Horror literature in the 20th century (It's important to note that this chiefly focuses on the anglosphere). Whilst naturally exploring the 20th century, it provides an excellent definition and history of the genre as well. Those two are kept very brief of course, but my god do they deliver.Another thing to note is that this book is really fucking
A whole lot of names and titles (and excellent thorough lists of horror fiction from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and other locations besides Great Britain and the US), but not actually a lot of discussion about those titles.
The price tag on this one is steep, but I requested it be added to my library’s collection, and they have indulged me. While I would like a little more discussion about individual stories as examples, I understand how the book would be really strained for space if that was done. The part of this book that I find immensely useful is the dives into horror fiction outside the anglosphere and from “outsider” spaces. There’s a ton of material in these to fill TO READ piles for quite some time.One bit...
