Driven To Madness With Fright

Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540770806
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driven to Madness with Fright written by S. T. Joshi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 30 years, S. T. Joshi has been a pioneering critic of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction. This new collection of his essays and reviews covers the entire range of weird fiction, from Romantic poetry to the work of Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson. Particularly insightful are Joshi's assessments of such contemporary writers as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Thomas Ligotti, and Reggie Oliver. Joshi, the leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, also provides pungent analyses of recent works of Lovecraftian fiction by such figures as W. H. Pugmire and Darrell Schweitzer, as well as incisive reviews of recent works of Lovecraft scholarship. All in all, this book will engage, entertain, and inform all devotees of weird fiction.

Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781724046376
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driven to Madness with Fright written by S. T. Joshi and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 30 years, S. T. Joshi has been a pioneering critic of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction. This new collection of his essays and reviews covers the entire range of weird fiction, from Romantic poetry to the work of Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson. Particularly insightful are Joshi's assessments of such contemporary writers as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Thomas Ligotti, and Reggie Oliver. Joshi, the leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, also provides pungent analyses of recent works of Lovecraftian fiction by such figures as W. H. Pugmire and Darrell Schweitzer, as well as incisive reviews of recent works of Lovecraft scholarship. This expanded edition now includes reviews of such writers as Richard Gavin, Mark Samuels, and Joel Lane, as well as reviews of several new anthologies of Lovecraftian fiction. All in all, this book will engage, entertain, and inform all devotees of weird fiction.

Author : Guenter B Risse
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097955
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driven by Fear written by Guenter B Risse and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the diseased from the rest of the city. Although the Pesthouse stood out of sight and largely out of mind, it existed at a vital nexus of civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, environment, morality, and citizenship entwined and played out. Guenter B. Risse places this forgotten institution within an emotional climate dominated by widespread public dread and disgust. In Driven by Fear , he analyzes the unique form of stigma generated by San Franciscans. Emotional states like xenophobia and racism played a part. Yet the phenomenon also included competing medical paradigms and unique economic needs that encouraged authorities to protect the city's reputation as a haven of health restoration. As Risse argues, public health history requires an understanding of irrational as well as rational motives. To that end he delves into the spectrum of emotions that drove extreme measures like segregation and isolation and fed psychological, ideological, and pragmatic urges to scapegoat and stereotype victims--particularly Chinese victims--of smallpox, leprosy, plague, and syphilis. Filling a significant gap in contemporary scholarship, Driven by Fear looks at the past to offer critical lessons for our age of bioterror threats and emerging infectious diseases.

Author : Jeremy Laurance
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134201079
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pure Madness written by Jeremy Laurance and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public alarm for random attacks by mentally ill people is at an all-time high. The brutal killing of Jill Dando, the TV personality, and the assault on George Harrison, the former Beatle, are among the cases which have undermined confidence in the mental health service. Community care is widely seen as a failed policy that has left too many people walking the streets, posing a risk to themselves and a threat to others. The Government has responded with a programme of change billed as the biggest reform in forty years, but will it achieve the 'safe, sound, supportive' service as promised? For Pure Madness, Jeremy Laurance travelled across the country observing the care provided to mentally ill people in Britain today. Based on interviews, visits and case histories, his book reveals a service driven by fear.

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Namaskar Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book "At The Mountains Of Madness " written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by Namaskar Books. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Shorter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190881194
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madness of Fear written by Edward Shorter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing wrong with basic science research, but before studying the role of brain circuits or cerebral chemistry, shouldn't we be able to specify how the various diseases present clinically? Catatonia is a human behavioral syndrome that for almost a century was buried in the poorly designated psychiatric concept of schizophrenia. Its symptoms are well-know, and some of them are serious. Catatonic patients may die as their temperatures accelerate; they become dehydrated because they refuse to drink; they risk inanition because they refuse to eat or move. Autistic children with catatonia may hit themselves repeatedly in the head. We don't really know what catatonia is, in the sense that we know what pneumonia is. But we can identify it, and it is eminently treatable. Clinicians can make these patients better on a reliable basis. There are few other disease entities in psychiatry of which this is true. So why has there been so little psychiatric interest in catatonia? Why is it simply not on the radar of most clinicians? Catatonia actually occurs in a number of other medical illnesses as well, but it is certainly not on the radar of most internists or emergency physicians. In The Madness of Fear, Drs. Shorter and Fink seek to understand why this "vast field of ignorance" exists. In the history of catatonia, they see a remarkable story about how medicine flounders, and then seems to find its way. And it may help doctors, and the public, to recognize catatonia as one of the core illnesses in psychiatry.

Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horror in the Museum written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This horror story has a man unable to distinguish between what is real and not real in a museum and finding out in a very horrific way. Stephen King said "H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007204493
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.

Author : Patrick Fuery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230629482
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness and Cinema written by Patrick Fuery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness and Cinema offers a radical approach to the issue of what happens when we watch films. By exploring cinema's relationship to meaning and proposing new ways to read cinema through psychoanalysis, this book develops the idea that the spectator engages in what has previously been described as an act of madness. By considering some of the key concepts from Freud and Lacan, as well as ideas from Derrida and Foucault, we are shown the common features that cinema and madness share. The film spectator is shown as the psychotic, neurotic and hysteric, as the book examines the ways in which the foundations of culture and meaning are challenged when we become the spectator of a film.

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Publisher : Elisa Oras
ISBN 13 : 1460984544
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Without Fear written by and published by Elisa Oras. This book was released on with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: