House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction

by Agnieszka Kotwasińska

This is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades. Twelve contemporary novels (by ten women writers and two whose work has been identified as women’s fiction) are grouped into four main thematic clusters – haunted houses; monsters; vampires; and hauntings – but it is social scripts and concerns linked directly to intimacy and family life that structure the entire volume. By drawing attention to how the most

Genres: Adult, Fiction & Literature

ISBN: 9781837720149

275 pages

Published: 2023-06-15

Publisher: University of Wales Press

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