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  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 5 No. 3) May/June 1981
    Guy M. Townsend
    The Mystery Fancier, May/June 1981, Volume 5 Number 3, contains: A Chinese Detective in San Francisco, by E. F. Bleiler; The Skene Melvin Bibliography, by Walter Albert; Rogues for the New Century; The Fathers and Sons of John Le Carre, by Harry Dawson; and Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part VIII, by Barry Van Tilburg. 3 ...
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    10,21 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 5 No. 5) September/October 1981
    Guy M. Townsend
    The Mystery Fancier, September/October 1981, Volume 5 Number 5, contains: Solving Sixth, by Robert Sampson; Wolfe a Howler!, by Bob Napier; On Fans and Bouchercons, by Guy M. Townsend; and Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part IX, by Barry Van Tilburg. 3 ...
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    10,28 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 5 No. 6) November/December 1981
    Guy M. Townsend
    The Mystery Fancier, November/December 1981, Volume 5 Number 6, contains: Old-Time Radio Lives, by Carl Larsen; The Great Lizzie Borden T-Short Media Event and Mystery Quiz, by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.; The Crime Writers Third International Congress, by Iwan Hedman; Doctor Wonderful, by Bob Sampson; Two from the Telly, by Bob Adey; and One in Two: Some Personality Studies by Ruth...
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    10,34 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 9 No. 3) May/June 1987
    Guy M. Townsend
    The Mystery Fancier, July/August 1987, Volume 9 Number 3, contains: Contemporary Clergy-Detectives, by Maryell Cleary; The Honorable Charlie Mordecai: An Oxymoron, by William F. Deeck; and The Cream of Queen, by Frank Floyd. 3 ...
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    10,28 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 9 No. 4) July/August 1987
    Guy M. Townsend
    The Mystery Fancier, July/August 1987, Volume 9 Number 4, contains: The Rise and Fall of Gillian Hazeltine, by Alvin H. Lybeck; Donald Goines: An Appreciation, by K. Arne Blom; Cornell Woolrich: The Last Years (Part IV), by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.; and Further Gems from the Literature, by William F. Deeck. 3 ...
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    9,07 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 6 No. 2) March/April
    Guy M. Townsend
    The Mystery Fancier, March/April 1982, Volume 6 Number 2, contains: The Policeman: A Victorian Novel, by E. F. Bleiler; Gide’s Vatican Cellars: The Popular Detective Novel Parodied, by Pierre L. Horn; Some Recent Hybrids, by George Kelley; and Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part XI, by Barry Van Tilburg. 3 ...
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    10,28 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 6 No. 3) May/June
    E.F. Bleiler / Guy M. Townsend / Robert Sampson
    The Mystery Fancier, May/June 1982, Volume 6 Number 3, contains: Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part XIi, by Barry Van Tilburg; Pirates in Candyland, by Bob Sampson; and Some Thoughts on Peacock Feet, by E. F. Bleiler. 3 ...
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    10,21 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 6 No. 4) July/August 1982
    Earl F. Bargainnier / Robert Sampson
    The Mystery Fancier, July/August 1982, Volume 6 Number 4, contains: The Tod Hunter Question, by David E. Funct; Case in Point: Gorky Park, by Fred Isaac; British Murder and British Detective Fiction, by Earl F. Bargainnier; and Amazing Grace, by Bob Sampson. 3 ...
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    10,34 €

  • Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction
    Brian Stableford
    Although the problems of writing fantasy and science fiction include all those pertaining to the writing of any kind of fiction, particular problems arise in stories in which unprecedented things can and do happen, as well as stories that often involve unhuman characters of various sorts, and that might require the elaborate design of entire imaginary worlds. This book provides...
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    16,56 €

  • Speaking of the Fantastic III
    Darrell Schweitzer
    'The basics of a good interview may be summed up in the following sentence: find someone interesting and articulate, ask just enough questions to get them talking, then point the microphone, shut up, and, oh, by the way, make sure your equipment works.' So says Darrell Schweitzer, the editor of this fascinating volume of contemporary interviews with seventeen science fiction wr...
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    18,47 €

  • Mystery and Detective Fiction in the Library of Congress Classification Scheme, Second Edition
    Eva Sorrell / Michael Burgess
    This manual provides a guide to the cataloging of criminous literature (i.e., mystery and detective fiction, spy stories, suspense novels, gothic mysteries, and some horror and macabre literature) in the Library of Congress classification scheme--including subject headings, classification numbers, author main entries and literature numbers, artist main entries and artist number...
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    24,54 €

  • Flashgun Casey, Crime Photographer
    David S. Siegel / David SSiegel / J. Randolph Cox / JRandolph Cox
    All there is to know about the crime fighting hero created by mystery writer George Harmon Coxe -- from his debut in Black Mask, the popular 1930s pulp magazine, to his 10 year stint on radio, his short lived television career plus his exploits in the movies, novels, comic books and a play. Includes the complete very first Casey short story, 'Return Engagement,' that appeared i...
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    22,02 €

  • They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill
    Joni Richards Bodart
    This book examines six different monsters that appear in YA fiction: vampires, shapeshifters, zombies, unicorns, angels, and demons. Beginning with a discussion of the meaning of monsters in cultures all over the world, subsequent chapters discuss the history and most important incarnations of the aforementioned monsters. Titles featuring the same kind of monsters are compared,...
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    70,77 €

  • Scotland as Science Fiction
    Caroline McCracken-Flesher
    Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places—with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotlan...
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    111,29 €

  • Grant Morrison
    Marc Singer
    One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres--superhero, science fiction, and fantasy--that dominate the American and British comics industries. His comics range from bestsellers featuring the most universally recognized super...
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    49,59 €

  • The Loss and the Silence. Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams.
    Margaret Hiley
    Traditionally, the 'Inklings' C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams have been seen as separate from the literature of their time: as innovative in an idiosyncratic way at best, and as reactionary and in deliberate opposition to contemporary progressive writing at worst. Recent years have seen a gradual change in this view, but few studies to date have attempted to rea...
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    30,49 €

  • Tolkien in Translation
    Thomas Honegger
    As a linguist and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien used words and languages as a source of inspiration for his subcreation and continuously interwove them with his narratives. With language being so central to his works, the task of translating them into other languages raises numerous problems for the translator. This volume reflects on some of these challenges and how different tr...
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    24,69 €

  • Translating Tolkien
    Thomas Honegger
    As in the preceding volume (TolkieninTranslation), the studies presented here deal with a wide range of problems and challenges connected with the task of translating Tolkien’s work. Contributions do not only discuss aspects of translation into different languages (German, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew), but also offer in-depth analysis of especially difficult areas of translation (na...
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    30,63 €

  • Scotland as Science Fiction
    Caroline McCracken-Flesher
    Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places—with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotlan...
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    61,44 €

  • The Imagination of Evil
    Mary Evans
    From its growth in Europe in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has developed into one of the most popular genres of literature and popular culture more widely. In this monograph, Mary Evans examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the modern and to modernity. She focuses on two key themes: the moral relationship of detection (and the detective) to a p...
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    64,37 €

  • Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe
    John Paul Athanasourelis
    Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged individualism. This book focuses on Raymond Chandler’s creation of Philip Marlowe, a detective whose feeling for community and willingness to compromise radically changed the genre’s vigilantism and violence. It compares Chandler’s w...
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    57,53 €

  • A Monster of Voices
    Robert HWaugh
    For more than two decades, Robert H. Waugh has been one of the most penetrating scholars of the work and thought of H. P. Lovecraft. His earlier volume, The Monster in the Mirror (2006), contained a treasury of essays that displayed Waugh’s exhaustive knowledge of Lovecraft’s work and his skill in placing Lovecraft in a broader literary context. This new collection of essays ce...
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    27,01 €

  • Charles Robert Maturin and the haunting of Irish romantic Fiction
    Christina Morin
    A clear, theoretically-grounded, chronological study of Maturin’s six novels. A new critical paradigm by which to view and read Irish Romantic fiction. Offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Maturin and his fiction available today. ...
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    157,49 €

  • Critical Perspectives on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
    Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials stands as a landmark in fantasy literature. Comprised of the novels The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, the award-winning epic trilogy has been adapted for radio, stage, and film in both Britain and the United States, though it remains controversial for its negative depiction of religion. Herein, scholars from var...
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    42,60 €

  • Superheroes of the Round Table
    Jason Tondro
    Few scholars nursed on the literary canon would dispute that knowledge of Western literature benefits readers and writers of the superhero genre. This analysis of superhero comics as Romance literature shows that the reverse is true--knowledge of the superhero romance has something to teach critics of traditional literature. Establishing the comic genre as a cousin to Arthur...
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    42,76 €

  • Zombies Are Us
    On the surface, the zombie seems the polar opposite of the human--they are the living dead; we, in essence, are the dying alive. But the zombie is also 'us.' Although decaying, it looks like us, dresses like us, and sometimes (if rarely) acts like us. In this volume, essays by scholars from a range of disciplines examine the zombie as a thematic presence in literature, film,...
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    43,95 €

  • The Millennial Detective
    Malcah Effron
    International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre’s response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the 20th century. Employing critica...
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    57,55 €

  • Riddle Me This, Batman!
    Kevin K Durand
    From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never been far from the American consciousness. The character shaped the way we read comics and graphic novels, view motion pictures, and analyze the motifs of the Hero, the Anti-Hero and the Villain. He has also captured the scholarl...
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    42,85 €

  • The End of the World
    Maria Manuel Lisboa
    Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production - from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games.This volume examines historical and imaginary scenarios of apocalypse, the depiction of ...
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    30,06 €

  • The End of the World
    Maria Manuel Lisboa
    Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production - from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games. This volume examines historical and imaginary scenarios of apocalypse, the depiction of...
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    54,07 €


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