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The thrill of fear : 250 years of scary entertainment / Walter Kendrick.
LIBRA - Rare PR830.T3 K4 1992 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kendrick, Walter M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror tales, English--History and criticism.
- Horror tales, English.
- Horror tales, American--History and criticism.
- Horror tales, American.
- Popular literature--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Horror in literature.
- Death in literature.
- Amusements--History.
- Amusements.
- History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (inscription) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 292 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First Evergreen edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Press, [1992]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Fear is the same
- Into the crypt
- Feelings for sale
- Fear among the ruins
- Stages of fear
- Fear comes home
- Genrefication
- Scream ans scream again
- Splat!
- Notes:
- "Designed by Irving Perkins Associates."
- "First Edition 1991."
- "First Evergreen Edition 1992."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy inscribed "To Chaim & Adena Potok - May it keep you awake ... nights. Best wishes, Walter M. Kendrick 10/27/92".
- ISBN:
- 0802132464
- 9780802132468
- OCLC:
- 30908450
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