Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction

Name: Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction
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Ray Bradburyâs Elliott Family

By: Miranda Corcoran (Editor), Steve Gronert Ellerhoff (Editor)

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Paperback | 13 December 2021 | Edition Number 1

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Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury's Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned (2001), making it a creative project that spanned his adult life. Not only do the stories focus on a single familial unit, engaging with overlapping twentieth-century themes of family, identity and belonging, they were also unique in their time, interrogating post-war American ideologies of domestic unity while reinventing and softening gothic horror for the Baby Boomer generation. Centred around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos while ranging across distinct themes. Essays included discuss the diverse ways in which the Elliott stories pose questions about difference and Otherness in America; engage with issues of gender, sexuality, and adolescence; and interrogate complex discourses surrounding history, identity, community, and the fantasy of family.

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"a comprehensive compendium which fulfils a conspicuous gap in existing Bradbury scholarship...this volume is a must-read for Bradbury scholars and fans who might be unaware of his supernatural works and are thus missing out on a critically relevant and intellectually stimulating aspect of his career."

- Amy Bride, Fantastika Journal, Volume 6 Issue 1 - Embodying Fantastika

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