An edition of Danse Macabre (1981)

Danse macabre

Gallery Books trade pbk. ed.

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An edition of Danse Macabre (1981)

Danse macabre

Gallery Books trade pbk. ed.

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.76 ·
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  • 9 Currently reading
  • 66 Have read

The author addresses the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books and films that comprise of the horror genre--from Frankenstein and Dracula to The exorcist, The twilight zone and Earth vs. The flying saucers.

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English
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459

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Subjects
The Fog, The Stand, Ghost Story, The House Next Door, The Shrinking Man, The Haunting of Hill House, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Strange Wine, Rosemary's Baby, The Body Snatchers, The Glass Teat, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Dark Shadows, Night Gallery, standards and practices, The Horror of Party Beach, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, I Married a Monster From Outer Space, The Stepford Wives, Women's liberation movement, The Amityville Horror, The China Syndrome, Tourist Trap, The Exorcist, The Thing From Another World, Lights Out, Suspense, Inner Sanctum, dowsing, Horror in mass media, History and criticism, Horror tales, Horror films, horror, non-fiction, horror fiction, archetypes, hubris, tarot, vampires, werewolves, Sputnik 1, Urban legends, Popular culture, Horreur dans les médias, Horror in literature, Littérature fantastique, Histoire et critique, Films d'horreur, Fiction, horror, Horror films, history and criticism, Horror plays, history and criticism, Horror tales, history and criticism, Horror, Groza, W mass mediach, Filmy grozy, Historia i krytyka, Literatura grozy, Horror tales--history and criticism, Horror films--history and criticism, P96.h65 k5 2010, 700/.4164
People
Ramsey Campbell, Peter Straub, Anne Rivers Siddon, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Ira Levin, Jack Finney, James Herbert, Harlan Ellison, Boris Karloff, Arch Obler, H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Dionysus, The Hook, Count Dracula, Dr. Jeckyll, Mr. Hyde, Thing Without a Name, Viktor Frankenstein, Frankenberry, Count Chocula
Places
Maine
Times
1957, Victorian era, 1950s-70s, 1970s, 1951, 1973, 1960s, 1975, 1979, 1958, 1964, 20e siècle

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Danse macabre
2010, Gallery
in English - Gallery Books trade pbk. ed.
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Danse macabre
2009, Prószyński Media
in Polish
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Danse Macabre. Die Welt des Horrors.
November 1, 2000, Ullstein Tb
Paperback in German
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Danse macabre: die Welt des Horrors in Literatur und Film
1989, Heyne
in German - Dt. Erstausg., 2. Aufl.
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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
1986 03, Berkley Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Berkley edition, 16th printing
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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
1985, Futura
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Futura edition, reprint
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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
1984?, Berkley Books
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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
1983-12, Berkeley Books
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Danse Macabre
December 1, 1983, Berkley
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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
1981, Everest House, Berkeley Books
Hardcover in English
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Edition Notes

"Includes a new essay, 'What's scary'"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
700/.4164
Library of Congress
P96.H65 K5 2010,

The Physical Object

Pagination
xli, 459 p. ;
Number of pages
459

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24412986M
Internet Archive
dansemacabre0000king_d0w3
ISBN 10
1439170983
ISBN 13
9781439170984
LCCN
2010279651
OCLC/WorldCat
377665905

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This is a non-fiction study of the horror genre including books, movies, television, etc.
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For me, the terror--the real terror, as opposed to whatever demons and boogeys which might have been living in my own mind--began on an afternoon in October of 1957.
added by Lisa. "first sentence"

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