An impressive scholarly collection with lavish illustrations. Like the characters haunting the pages, once drawn into its clutches the reader will struggle to escape. Insightful, compelling and as gripping as a horror story. --The LadyReal-life fear is no luxury, but the appeal of its fictional twin is undeniable, and it is vividly demonstrated throughout the British Library's informative history of horror. --The Times Literary SupplementInformed and accessible, with an eye to both students and lovers of Horror. --Starburst Biografía del autor Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has edited Horror: A Literary History for British Library Publishing, along with a number of weird and Gothic fiction anthologies.