![]() ![]() Īnd since it has been a year in real time, if you need a refresher on those forays, visit the archive of our travels thus far. We also looked at Charles Perrault’s Bluebeard, and the enduring impact it had on the horror genre, influencing everyone from Joyce Carol Oates to Stephen King to DC Comics and Dungeons and Dragons. It was Webster’s The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi that propelled the genre forward in terms of gruesome, macabre and supernatural trappings. ![]() And in our last column we visited the Elizabethan era and examined horror fiction on the stage, with the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlow, Ben Jonson, and John Webster. In the twelfth century, we read feminist werewolf fiction. ![]() Then, traveling onward through time, we checked out The Oresteia, Beowulf, Dante’s Inferno, Lucian Samosata’s True History, and more. we checked out Theseus and the Minotaur, the tale of Perseus. and learned about things like The Epic of Gilgamesh and the world’s first zombie novel. ![]() Our journey through the history of horror fiction began 20,000 years ago, when we visited the world’s first horror novelist, Thurg. We can pretend that I wasn’t almost burned to death in a terrible mishap and that no time has passed at all. And though it seems like it has been a year since our last column, we can undo that. We are still traveling through time, you and I. ![]()
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