"?? [[ Best known as the author of imaginative short fiction, such as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado, and as the author of hauntingly sonorous poems such as The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe was a leading practitioner of the American Gothic and helped popularize the short story as a genre. This reference work assembles in dictionary format a complete and current body of information on Poe's life and work. More than 1 ..."
"CHAPTER TEN Beyond Armageddon: Stephen King's The Stand and the Post-
Catastrophic World in Speculative Fiction Steven E. Kagle Stephen King's The
Stand is part of an ancient tradition. The prophesy and resulting fear of a divinely
ordained catastrophe is as old as civilization, appearing in the oldest tales. All of
the major religions have some apocalyptic material in their sacred writings. Most
of these examples follow a common pa ..."
"As Thomas Monteleone suggests, "If you take away the interesting, well-drawn
characters in King's novels and stories, you have some pretty ordinary tales" (241
) . As the reader becomes more involved in the moral and physical struggles of
King's protagonists, she both escapes from her world for a little while, and yet
also sees that same world projected back at her with startling revelations. This is
King's great skill: the ability ..."
"Tony Magistrale, Anthony Magistrale. Chapter 2 The Devil in the Machine:
Technological Boogeymen "If a nuclear war starts, it's going to start. by accident;
it's not going to start because it's intended." --Senator Joseph R. ... And I get
haunted by the idea of gadgets, because that's all it is--gadgets. It's all stuff
hooked together with rubber bands and Elmer's Glue; it's all insert Tab A into Tab
B. And we love things like that ..."
OBSESSIONS by Anthony S. Magistrale Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 1990 by Niekas Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-910619-05-9, ISBN: 0-910619-05-0
Abject Terrors(1st Edition) Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film by Tony Magistrale, MagistraleAnthony Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 2005 by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7056-6, ISBN: 0-8204-7056-2
"If films such as Vertigo and Psycho speak to us of the tragic flaws associated with
being a monstrous human, The Day the Earth Stood Still and the Alien saga
manage to discuss similar concerns from thousands of miles away. In other
words, while the horror film is capable of telescoping itself into scenarios that are
as radically disparate as an American suburban family battling evil forces inside
their television and a spaceship co ..."
"This book is about culture shock and the writing process. For a student, the relationship between writing and the challenge of living in a foreign culture may not be obvious. The purpose of Writing Across Culture is to aid the student in documenting and analyzing the connection. If culture can be broadly defined as the unwritten rules of every-day life, one effective method for learning these rules is to write about them as they ar ..."
" One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, "Landscape of Fear" (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony Magistrale shows how King's fiction transcends the escapism typical of its genre to tap into our deepest cultural fears: "that the government we have installed through the democratic p ..."
"In The Stand, for instance, when Larry Underwood waits to be presented to the
assembled crowd at the Boulder Free Zone Open Meeting, readers are reminded
three times of the Larry Underwood they met in the early part of the novel: (a) "
There were five hundred and eighty people here and most of them didn't have
any idea that Larry Underwood wasn't no nice guy, or that the first person Larry
Underwood had attempted to take care of aft ..."