Product Description: A detailed companion to the work of Stephen King, using original articles, interviews, and biographical material to show how he became America's favorite storyteller.The Stephen King Companion provides a look inside Stephen King's world...read more

Product Description: Richard Matheson (1926–2013) was a prolific author and screenwriter whose career helped shape the horror and fantasy genres in literature, film, and television for over sixty years. Matheson authored more than ninety short stories and dozens of novels, many of which—including I Am Legend, A Stir of Echoes, What Dreams May Come, The Shrinking Man, Hell House, and Bid Time Return—have been adapted into feature films...read more

Product Description: The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts...read more

Product Description: Many academics dismiss Stephen King as a mere genre writer, an over-glorified bestseller who appeals to the masses, but lacks literary merit. This critical analysis of King's epic novel The Stand makes a case for the horror master as a literary writer...read more

Product Description: Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows these devices reflect an outpouring of anxiety about the nature of justice. On both sides of the Atlantic, novelists like William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hannah Crafts question the foundations of the Anglo-American justice system through their portrayals of criminal and judicial procedures and their use of found documents and legal forms as key plot devices...read more

This practical approach avoids legalese and explains the employment laws and potential pitfalls for business owners and managers. The authors lead the reader to analyze employment law using concrete examples of management-related legal dilemmas.

This practical approach avoids legalese and explains the employment laws and potential pitfalls for business owners and managers. The authors lead the reader to analyze employment law using concrete examples of management-related legal dilemmas. (view table of contents)