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Tables of Contents for A History of Terror
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
Colin Wilson
Introduction
xiii
Panic: the Birth & Spread of Terror
Great Pan is Dead
1
5
Spiritual Delinquents
6
4
The Devil
10
4
Natural History of the Vampire
14
3
The Middle Ages: Theological Nightmares
Cathars
17
8
Suffering Witches
25
8
Werewolf
33
7
Where the Wild Things Are
40
7
The Fourth Horseman
47
7
Sociology of the Lost Soul
54
9
Shadow of the Antichrist
63
16
Elizabethans: Disorder in the Kingdom
All the Queen's Enemies
79
23
Restoration & Revolution: Nature & Nothing
Lord Rochester
102
8
Absolute Fear: the Revolutionary Spirit of the Marquis de Sade
110
6
The Romantics: the Ministry of Fear
Dread
116
5
Riding the Nightmare
121
6
Murder as a Fine Art
127
3
Resurrectionists
130
13
Victoriana: the Reign of Ghosts
The Great Rush of Creation
143
7
Blasphemers and Diabolists
150
11
'Hast Ever Been Down a Mine?'
161
4
Literature of the Crypt
165
9
Twentieth Century: Thin Ice of Civilisation
The Big Crunch
174
11
The Touch of Pan
185
6
Knifeman in Utopia: Ruminations on Madness
191
9
Hope Springs Infernal: the Devil in the Twentieth Century
200
17
Fear in the City
217
4
The Vision in the Tower
221
3
Bibliography
224
5
Index
229