Stephen King's Gothic

Author(s) John Sears

Language: English

Genre(s): History

Series: Gothic Literary Studies

  • June 2011 · 288 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Hardback - 9780708323458
  • · eBook - pdf - 9780708323465
  • · Paperback - 9780708324028
  • · eBook - epub - 9781783164714

Stephen King is the world's best-selling horror writer. His work is ubiquitous on bookstore, supermarket, and personal library shelves and has been faithfully adapted into some of the most iconic horror films of the twentieth century. This study explores his writing through the lenses of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Through analyses of some of his best-known work, including "Carrie" and "Misery," the authors argue that King offers ways of encountering and understanding some of our deepest fears about life and death, the past and the future, technological change, other people, monsters, ghosts, and the supernatural.This is the first extended critical-theoretical engagement with King's writing, and will be of interest to students, academics, and fans of horror fiction.

Author(s): John Sears

Dr John Sears is a senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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