title: Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond
author: Clive Bloom
description: Clive Bloom is an English professor who's written and edited several books on popular literature and pop culture (e.g., <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312037082/${0}">Twentieth-Century Suspense: The Thriller Comes of Age</a></i>). In this new title, <i>Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond</i>, he's picked the greatest hits of horror fiction commentary--including Poe's essay on how he wrote "The Raven," as well as observations from today's best literary critics.
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  For Daniel, John and every  
  cherub-faced child I’ve met  
  who’s possessed by a  
  gruesome imagination…
  
   **Table of Contents**
  
  Good Reads
  
  Invisible Man
  
  Death Threats?
  
  Foul Play!
  
  Nosebleed
  
  Max Spectre
  
  Zenith
  
  The Old Boar
  
  Killer Pigs
  
  Collateral Damage
  
  Press Attack!
  
  Vampires
  
  Death of a Ghost
  
  The Pen is Mightier
  
  Go West!
  
  Fletcher, Beaumont & Grimm
  
  Violas Confession
  
  Death by Dragon
  
   **By** _7 p.m. the London offices of Fletcher, Beaumont & Grimm were almost
  deserted. Almost, but not quite. In a book-lined study a reader sat behind a
  mahogany desk, turning the pages of a freshly typed manuscript. The silence
  was broken only by the occasional rustling of paper and the steady ticking of
  a grandfather clock. Across the room a leather armchair creaked as Sebastian
  Vincent, the manuscript’s author, shifted nervously, waiting for the reader’s
  response._
  
   _At last the wait was over. Sebastian watched as the final page was replaced
  carefully and smoo