Collection of Western panic stories

Author: Zhu Nai Zhang
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Publish Date: 1997-06-01
Features: All the stories in this book are selected and translated from Eric Protter's collection of short stories, A Harvest of Horrors. The content is diverse, covering various themes, all written by renowned modern and contemporary authors. Readers will discover the role and reflection of both supernatural and moral elements in Western horror fiction, gaining an understanding of some important characteristics of this literary form. At the same time, readers will also find certain features of modernist fiction in these stories. They are absurd and bizarre in content and plot, while in terms of expression, they reveal symbolism, surrealism, and the subconscious and implications often used by psychological novelists. However, some works are profoundly meaningful at a deeper level, reflecting the authors' attitudes toward society and their views on life.