Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Why Write About Horror? xiii What Is Horror Fiction? xiv American and British Horror Literature Before the Twentieth Century xvi International Horror xviii Part One 1901–1939, The Golden Age 1 Chapter 1 British Writers The “Classical” Tradition(s) 3 The Machen Quartet Breaks with Tradition 6 Naturalism and the Psychological Ghost Story 8 Traditionalists and Holdovers 8 New Voices 10 The War Years 13 Voices of the Twenties 13 The End of the Golden Age 15 Chapter 2 American Writers 18 The Great Age of the American Ghost Story 18 East Coast versus West Coast 19 The East Coast School 19 Sexism and Great Age Content 21 East Coast Membership 22 The West Coast School 24 Exceptions 26 After Weird Tales Debut 27
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