ENGL 264 Supernatural Horror in Literature
A guided tour through the literary Gothic, a castle filled with chambers, crypts, and dungeons, each of them containing a frightful ghoul or spectre (psychological, antiquarian, cosmic, decadent) waiting to pounce upon the innocent and unsuspecting visitor. Readings include works by Horace Walpole, Matthew G. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu, M. P. Shiel, Arthur Machen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King.