Images of fear : how horror stories helped shape modern culture, 1818-1918
Martin Tropp (Author)
"From Frankenstein to Dracula, and Dr. Jackyll to Jack the Ripper, Victorian England saw the creation of horror stories and characters that have become modern myths. But why did those myths arise at that time? And how do they reflect the real horrors of the modern urban and industrial age? Images of Fear traces the horror story and real horror from 1818 to 1918 in words and rare photographs. Along the way, the reader encounters real and imagined criminals, monsters and nightmare landscapes, discovering that, by the time of the First World War, the horror story was the only way to make sense of a horrifying reality."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©1990
McFarland & Co., Jefferson, N.C., ©1990