- Publication: The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's HorrorscapePublication Record # 37874
- Author: Tony Magistrale
- Date: 1992-03-00
- ISBN: 0-313-27297-2 [978-0-313-27297-4]
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Pub. Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Pub. Series #: 48
- Pages: xix+227
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Format: tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
- Type: NONFICTION
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Notes: Data from Greenwood Press and WorldCat, OCLC.
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External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 24545964
Nonfiction Title:
The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape • nonfiction by
Tony Magistrale
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape: An Introduction • essay by Tony Magistrale
- The Masks of the Goddess: The Unfolding of the Female Archetype in Stephen King's Carrie • essay by Greg Weller
- Partners in the Danse: Women in Stephen King's Fiction • essay by Mary Pharr
- Complex, Archetype, and Primal Fear: King's Use of Fairy Tales in the Shining • essay by Ronald T. Curran
- The Three Genres of the Stand • essay by Edwin F. Casebeer
- Some Ways of Reading the Dead Zone • essay by Michael N. Stanton
- Fear and Pity: Tragic Horror in King's Pet Sematary • essay by Leonard Mustazza
- The Mythic Journey in "The Body" • essay by Arthur W. Biddle
- "Everybody Pays ... Even for Things They Didn't Do": Stephen King's Pay-Out in the Bachman Novels • essay by James F. Smith
- Science, Politics, and the Epic Imagination: The Talisman • essay by Tony Magistrale
- A Clockwork Evil: Guilt and Coincidence in "The Monkey" • essay by Gene Doty
- Playing the Heavy: Weight, Appetite, and Embodiment in Three Novels by Stephen King • essay by Bernadette Lynn Bosky
- Riddle Game: Stephen King's Metafictive Dialogue • essay by Jeanne Campbell Reesman
- Stephen King Reading William Faulkner: Memory, Desire, and Time in the Making of It • essay by Mary Jane Dickerson
- "The Face of Mr. Flip": Homophobia in the Horror of Stephen King • essay by Douglas Keesey
- Reading, Writing and Interpreting: Stephen King's Misery • essay by Lauri Berkenkamp
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