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Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse. But instead of using philosophy to define or to explain the horror genre, Thacker reads works of philosophy as if they were horror stories themselves, revealing a rift between human beings and the unhuman world of which they are part. Along the way we see philosophers grappling with demons, struggling with doubt, and wrestling with an indifferent cosmos. At the center of it all is the philosophical drama of the human being confronting its own limits. Not a philosophy of horror, but a horror of philosophy. Thought that stumbles over itself, as if at the edge of an abyss. Starry Speculative Corpse is the second volume of the'Horror of Philosophy'trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the third volume, Tentacles Longer Than Night.

Philosophy and civilization --- Horror tales, English --- Metaphysics. --- History and criticism.

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Horror tales, Spanish American --- Horror tales, Spanish --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Detective and mystery stories, Latin American --- Littérature d'épouvante. --- Roman gothique. --- Roman policier. --- Detective and mystery stories, Latin American. --- Horror tales, Spanish. --- Horror tales, Spanish American. --- History and criticism.

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American fiction --- English fiction --- Ghost stories --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales --- Supernatural in literature --- Ghosts --- Fiction --- History and criticism --- Supernatural in literature. --- History and criticism.

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"The haunted house of American fiction is an iconic union of setting and theme with an enduring presence in popular culture that traces its lineage to the early English Gothic novels. Focusing on the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson and Stephen King, this critical work offers a fresh perspective"--

Horror tales, American --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Littérature d'épouvante américaine --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- Critique et interprétation.

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This bookbrings together a carefully selected range of contemporary disciplinary approaches to new areas of Gothic inquiry. Moving beyond the representational and historically based aspects of literature and film that have dominated Gothic studies, this volume both acknowledges the contemporary diversification of Gothic scholarship and maps its changing and mutating incarnations. Drawing strength from their fascinating diversity, and points of correlation, the varied perspectives and subject areas cohere around a number of core themes - of re-evaluation, discovery, and convergence - to reveal emerging trends and new directions in Gothic scholarship. Visiting fascinating areas including the Gothic and digital realities, uncanny food experiences, representations of death and the public media, Gothic creatures and their popular legacies, new approaches to contemporary Gothic literature, and re-evaluations of the Gothic mode through regional narratives, essays reveal many patterns and intersecting approaches, forcefully testifying to the multifaceted, although lucidly coherent, nature of Gothic studies in the 21st Century. The multiple disciplines represented - from digital inquiry to food studies, from fine art to dramaturgy - engage with the Gothic in order to offer new definitions and methodological approaches to Gothic scholarship. The interdisciplinary, transnational focus of this volume provides exciting new insights into, and expanded and revitalised definitions of, the Gothic and its related fields.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Gothic revival (Art) --- Horror in mass media --- Goth culture (Subculture) --- Horror in mass media. --- Gothic horror tales (Literary genre) --- Gothic novels (Literary genre) --- Gothic romances (Literary genre) --- Gothic tales (Literary genre) --- Romances, Gothic (Literary genre) --- Gothic culture (Subculture) --- Mass media --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism --- Detective and mystery stories --- Horror tales --- Suspense fiction --- Subculture --- Art, Modern --- Arts, Modern