Frightening FictionEdited by Morag Styles and written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering the key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published, read and studied. The development of the horror genre in children's literature has been a startling phenomenon - one that has provoked strong, but mixed, reactions. Frightening Fiction provides a lucid and lively guide to that genre, ranging from analyses of such popular series as Point Horror, Goosebumps, the X Files and the Buffy stories, to the work of individual authors such as Robert Westall, David Almond, Philip Gross and Lesley Howarth. |
Contents
Point Horror and the Point of Horror | 19 |
Robert Westalls Frightening Fictions | 53 |
Frightening | 92 |
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adolescent horror fiction adolescent reader adult aliens anxieties audience Baby-Sitter Beach becomes Billen Blackham's Wimpey Buffy Carnegie Medal characters Chas McGill Children's Literature contemporary Cooney Cooney's cultural darkness David Almond's dead Denzil depicted doppelgänger Emod Erin evil Facetaker fantasy father fear female friends frightening fiction game called Death gamemaster genre ghost story Girlfriend girls Grampa Gross haunted Heaven Eyes Hugo human hysteria Jenny John Karen kill Kit's Wilderness Lesley Howarth living London male Michael mother Muncaster Cathedral murder narrator novel's conclusion parents Paulina Philip Gross players plot Point Horror novels Point Horror series protagonist R. L. Stine rational reading Rebecca Robert Westall Sarland Scarecrows sense Showalter Skellig Stine's Point Horror Stones of Muncaster Stoneygate supernatural fiction supernatural novels supernatural stories terror texts thrillers Transformer uncanny Urn Burial vampire Watch House Westall's Westall's fiction Whitegates Wind Eye writing X-Files young readers