Unutterable Horror - A History of Supernatural Fiction - S. T. Joshi 2014
Volume 1: From Gilgamesh to the End of the Nineteenth Century
Supernaturalism in Greek Literature
Supernaturalism in Latin Literature
The Middle Ages and the Elizabethans
Milton and the Eighteenth Century
The Gothics
Interregnum
Supernaturalism in the Romantic Poets
Anticipations of Poe: Washington Irving
Supernatural and Non-Supernatural Revenge
French and German Supernaturalism
Irish Gothic: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Deluge: British and European Branch
Slumming with Stoker and Others
The Deluge: American Branch
Volume 2: The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
The Titans
Arthur Machen: The Evils of Materialism
Algernon Blackwood: Nature as God and Refuge
Lord Dunsany: Fantasy and Terror
M. R. James: The Pinnacle of the Ghost Story
Other Early Twentieth-Century Masters
The Evolution of the Ghost Story
Walter de la Mare: The Psychological Ghost Story
Novelists, Satirists, and Poets
William Hope Hodgson: Things in the Weeds
The Development of Weird Poetry
H. P. Lovecraft and His Influence
Characteristics of Lovecraft’s Work
Borderline Weirdists: Howard, Smith, Merritt
Disciples: Long, Derleth, Wandrei, and Others
The Poetry of the Lovecraft Circle
American Pulpsmiths
Weird Tales, Unknown, and Other Pulps
The Mixing of Genres: Moore, Kuttner, Bloch, Leiber
Horror at Midcentury
The Group: Bradbury, Matheson, Beaumont, Nolan
Domestic Horror: Shirley Jackson
Throwbacks: Russell, Kirk, Brennan, Walter, Du Maurier
Looking Ahead: Dahl, Grubb, Serling, Case
Robert Aickman’s “Strange Stories”
Some Novelists: Sturgeon, Wilson, Davies, Levin, Stewart
The Boom: The Blockbusters
A Disquisition on Bestsellerdom
The Breakthrough: Blatty and Tryon
The Bestseller Factory: Stephen King
Splatterpunk and Its Antecedents
Ramsey Campbell: Horrors of the City