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From the earliest slave narratives to modern fiction by the likes of Colson Whitehead and Jesmyn Ward, African American authors have drawn on African spiritual practices as …
With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote declared he broke new literary ground. But Capote's "e;nonfiction novel"e; belongs to a long Naturalist tradition …
In his 1837 speech "e;The American Scholar,"e; Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "e;life is our dictionary,"e; encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the …
Just over 200 years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and …
Since his first novel in 1992, Michael Connelly has become one of America's most popular and critically acclaimed crime writers. He is best known as the author of a long-running …
This reference work covers the supernatural and speculative fiction published by Arkham House Publishers, Inc., of Sauk City, Wisconsin. In 1937, promising Wisconsin writer August …
This companion to Frank Herbert's six original Dune novels--Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune--provides an …
Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and "e;weird fiction,"e; T.E.D. Klein is considered one of the great horror writers, despite his scant body of …
Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the most well-known science fiction novels of all time, and it is often revered alongside time-honored classics like The Lord of the Rings. Unlike …
Marxist theories have had a profound influence on crime fiction, beginning with the works of the American writers of the 1930s. This study explores the development of a Swedish …