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.
zlib_text: > THE HAUNTED BEDCHAMBER
  
  > A GOTHIC PARANORMAL ROMANCE
  
  > GILLIAN ST. KEVERN
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _Chapter 11_
  
  >  _Chapter 12_
  
  >  _Chapter 13_
  
  >  _Chapter 14_
  
  >  _Chapter 15_
  
  >  _Chapter 16_
  
  >  _Chapter 17_
  
  >  _Epilogue_
  
  >  _Also by Gillian St. Kevern_
  
  >  _The Wing Commander’s Curse_
  
  >  _Book Rec: Son of Beauty, God of Death_
  
  >  _About the Author_
  
  >  _Afterword_
  
   _To Bruce, Chester and Pip_
  
   _No honestly, I can’t just spend all day patting you…_
  
  > > 1
  
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