The Philosophy of Horror

Examining the evolving role of horror, this title investigates works such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), horror films of the 1930s, Stephen King's novels, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining (1980), and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).

• Author
• Thomas Fahy, Paul A. Cantor, Phillip J. Nickel, Phillip Tallon, Jeremy Morris, Jessica O'Hara, Amy Kind, Lorena Russell, John Lutz, Susann B. Cokal, Robert Gross, Ann C. Hall, David Johnston

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 259

• Publisher
• University Press of Kentucky

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780813125732

• Genres
• horror, philosophy, film, essays, cultural, research

• Release date
• 2010