Texts marked with a * will be available as PDFs on Fronter, and I’ve given addresses for the texts that you should access online. Below is a list of what you need to buy from Akademika.
In addition to the texts listed here, you will be asked to read a selection of theory and secondary criticism. This will be provided in advance of each class.
Textbooks
- Gina Wisker, Horror Fiction: An Introduction (2005)
- Ken Gelder (ed.), The Horror Reader (2000)
Novels and novellas
- Sheridan Le Fanu, ‘Carmilla’ (1872), in In A Glass Darkly
- Algernon Blackwood, ‘The Willows’ (1907) *
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000)
Short stories
- Lucy Clifford, ‘The New Mother’ (1882) (available online here: http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/11/creepy-classic-lucy-cliffords-the-new-mother/)
- Robert W. Chambers, ‘The Yellow Sign’ (1895), in The Hastur Cycle
- May Sinclair, ‘Where Their Fire is Not Quenched’ (1922) *
- Elizabeth Bowen, ‘The Cat Jumps’ (1934) *
- James Blish, ‘More Light’ (1970), in The Hastur Cycle
- James Tiptree, Jr.: ‘The Screwfly Solution’ (1977) *
- Angela Carter, ‘The Fall River Axe Murders’ (1981)*
- Kelly Link, ‘The Specialist’s Hat’ (1998) (available online here: http://www.kellylink.net/fiction/link-specialist.htm)
- Nalo Hopkinson, ‘The Glass Bottle Trick’ (2000) (available online here: http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-fiction/the-glass-bottle-trick/)
- Chuck Palahniuk, ‘Guts’ (2004) (available online here: http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts)
- China Mieville, ‘Säcken’ (2015) *
Online fiction
- Em Carroll, ‘Margot’s Room’ (webcomic, 2011, available online here: http://emcarroll.com/comics/margot/index.html)
- ‘The Curious Case of Smile.jpg’ (creepypasta, date unknown, available online here: http://www.creepypasta.org/creepypasta/the-curious-case-of-smile-jpg)
- ‘My Dead Girlfriend Keeps Messaging Me on Facebook’ (creepypasta, 2014, available online here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/29kd1x/my_dead_girlfriend_keeps_messaging_me_on_facebook)
Essays
- Sigmund Freud, ‘The “Uncanny”’ (1919) *
- Ursula LeGuin, ‘The Child and the Shadow’ (1975) (available online)
To buy
- Gina Wisker, Horror Fiction: An Introduction (2005)
- Ken Gelder (ed.), The Horror Reader (2000)
- Robert M. Price, The Hastur Cycle (2006)
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (1959) (Penguin Modern Classics edition, 2009)
- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000)
- Sheridan Le Fanu, in A Glass Darkly (1872) (Oxford World’s Classics edition, 2008)