Horrors: Great Stories of Fear and Their Creators

by Rocky Wood, Glenn Chadbourne (Illustrator)

Overview

That notorious evening at Villa Diodati when Lord Byron challenged his contemporaries to write a ghost story, his summons brought forth a mad doctor intent on reanimation and a vampire drunk with bloodlust. The night modern horror was born was notoriously dark and stormy, as were the lives of those who wrote the most fearsome--yet beloved--tales in literature, for those so gifted were also cursed. Horrors, a graphic novel, reveals in gruesome detail how Mary Wollstonecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of the genre were haunted by their monstrous creations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786445639
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	09/24/2010
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rocky Wood is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of many books about Stephen King. He is president of the Horror Writers Association and lives in Victoria, Australia. Glenn Chadbourne is a freelance artist who specializes in the horror/dark fantasy genre. His trademark pen and ink illustrations have enhanced the work of some of today’s hottest authors, including Stephen King’s The Secretary Of Dreams. He lives in Newcastle, Maine with his wife Sheila and their pug dog Rocket.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction     
Frankenstein     
The Vampyre     
Death of the Diodati     
Beowulf     
Shakespeare     
The Rise of the Gothic Novel     
Poe     
Dracula     
Conclusion     
Afterword     

Editorial Reviews

Quite an accomplishment. Wood does a masterful job of encapsulating each of the classic stories, hitting all of the important beats, and Chadbourne’s illustrations are just masterful. You could literally spend hours going over all of the fine details on each page”—Horror World

From the Publisher

Glenn Chadbourne's black and white illustrations hint at the great work of horror illustrators from the early days of comics and pulps. At the same time he brings an amazing level of detail to his work which draws the reader deeper and deeper...exceptional writing of Rocky Wood. Readers will find themselves driven from page to page, finding each illustration as delightful as the last. I cannot recommend this work more highly even if the words existed to do so

DriveThru Comics

this unusual book blends fiction and nonfiction and is illustrated with detailed and terrifying pen-and-ink drawings

School Library Journal

quite an accomplishment. Wood does a masterful job of encapsulating each of the classic stories, hitting all of the important beats, and Chadbourne's illustrations are just masterful. You could literally spend hours going over all of the fine details on each page

Horror World