Glen St. John Barclay
Auteur de Anatomy of horror : the masters of occult fiction
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Œuvres de Glen St. John Barclay
The empire is marching: A study of the military effort of the British Empire 1800-1945 (1976) 6 exemplaires
The Rise and Fall of the New Roman Empire: Italy's bid for World Power, 1890-1943 (1973) 4 exemplaires
A Very Small Insurance Policy: The Politics of Australian Involvement in Vietnam, 1954-1967 (1988) 3 exemplaires
Struggle for a continent : the diplomatic history of South America, 1917-1945, [by] Glen Barclay (1971) 2 exemplaires
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Anatomy of horror : the masters of occult fiction par Glen St. John Barclay
An interesting look at Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, H.R. Haggard, Dennis Wheatly, William Blatty. Fairly interesting view of how supernatural fiction can serve to present a mystic worldview. The chapter on Lovecraft is really weak, full of misreadings and factual errors compounded by the author's unwillingness to consider that Lovecraft's mythos can have meaning even if the author doesn't believe in it as literal truth. (The latter may be due to the St. John Barclay's Platonism.)… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Membres
- 62
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- #271,094
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- 3.9
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- 1
- ISBN
- 22
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