Topics in Digital Cinema

History of Horror Film

Theoretical Reading

• Siegmund Freud, The Uncanny
• Horror Film Reader, edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini
• Tzvetan Todorov, The Fantastic (will be available as e-resource)
• Ronald Best: Freaks: Reevaluating a Screen Classic

Horror Fiction

• Algernon Blackwood, The Singular Death of Morton, or The Singular Death of Morton
• E.F. Benson, Caterpillars, or Caterpillars
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, or The Yellow Wallpaper (with study questions)
• Wilhelm Hauff, The Story of the Haunted Ship
• William Hope Hodgson, Out of the Storm, or Out of the Storm
• E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Sandman, or The Sandman
• Washington Irving, The Adventure of my Grandfather or at Adventures of my Grandfather
• Shirley Jackson, The Lottery,
• W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw or The Monkey's Paw
• M. R. James, Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you my Lad or Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you my Lad
• Jerome K. Jerome: From Told after Supper: Introduction, Mr. Coombe's Story-The Haunted Mill
• Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony,
• H.P. Lovecraft, The Statement of Randolph Carter
• Arthur Machen, Novel of the White Powder, or Novel of the White Powder
• Guy De Maupsassant, The Diary of a Madman, or The Diary of a Madman
• Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat, or The Black Cat
• Bram Stoker, Burial of the Rats, or Burial of the Rats