TY - JOUR
AU - Morgan, Jack
AB -  The somewhat dated usage “toward” is employed here to emphasize this essay’s exploratory nature and because so little ground has been laid in the area this article deals with, despite energized literary critical attention to horror fiction recently. There have been occasional books written on the aesthetics or theory of the Gothic-Aiken and Barbauld’s essay “On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror” (1775) was an early one; H. P. Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in Literature appeared in the late 1920s; David R. Saliba’s A Psychology of Fear (1980), Stephen King’s Danse Macabre (1981), Terry Heller’s The Delights of Terror (1987) and Noel Carroll’s The Philosophy o Horror (1990), are more f recent ones. In addition, a number of untraditional studies like Julia f Kristiva’s Powers o Horror, Terry Castle’s Masquerade and Civilization and Stallybrass and White’s The Politics and Poetics of Transgression, have contributed valuable supplementary insights useful in the study of Horror fiction. Nevertheless, the genre has yet to be defined as clearly having its own raison d’etre and its own place in the theoretical, schematic landscape along with major forms like comedy and tragedy. This despite the macabre’s undeniable literary, film, and popular cultural appeal, one 
TI - Toward an Organic Theory of the Gothic: Conceptualizing Horror
JF - The Journal of Popular Culture
DO - 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1998.3203_59.x
DA - 1998-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/toward-an-organic-theory-of-the-gothic-conceptualizing-horror-bfmvSudwKN
SP - 59
VL - 32
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -