Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science

It's alive! Spine-tingling tales of scientists gone mad. From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as...
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Author: Xavier Aldana Reyes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science by Reyes, Xavier Aldana

Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science

$41.29

Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science

$41.29
Author: Xavier Aldana Reyes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
It's alive! Spine-tingling tales of scientists gone mad.

From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, and later weirdists such as H.P. Lovecraft came one of the most complex of villains--the mad scientist.

Promethean Horrors presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created, as each cautionary tale explores the consequences of pushing nature too far.

These savants take many forms: there are malcontents who strive to create poisonous humans; technologists obsessed with genetic splicing; mesmerists interested in the way consciousness operates after death, and inventors who believe in a hidden reality.

From essential Gothic stories by Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Edgar Allan Poe to later forays into the weird and psychedelic by E. Nesbit, H. P. Lovecraft and George Langelaan, the classic figure of the mad scientist is reanimated in these pages along with every untethered ambition and its calamitous consequences.

Author: Xavier Aldana Reyes
Publisher: British Library
Published: 03/01/2020
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780712352840

About the Author
Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. His books include Spanish Gothic, Horror: A Literary History, Horror Film and Affect, Digital Horror, and Body Gothic. Xavier is chief editor of the University of Wales Press's Horror Studies series.

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