The ‘Great Outdoors’ in the Weird Fiction of Derek Landy and Anthony Horowitz
The final iteration of twenty-first-century children’s Gothic I want to consider is Weird fiction, focusing on two series of books by Anthony Horowitz and Derek Landy. The Skulduggery Pleasant series by Landy (2007–16) and The Power of Five series by Horowitz (2005–14) combine Weird horror fiction (...
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| Published in | Twenty-First-Century Children’s Gothic p. 174 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
07.03.2018
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | The final iteration of twenty-first-century children’s Gothic I want to consider is Weird fiction, focusing on two series of books by Anthony Horowitz and Derek Landy. The Skulduggery Pleasant series by Landy (2007–16) and The Power of Five series by Horowitz (2005–14) combine Weird horror fiction (a style typified in the works of H. P. Lovecraft, first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in the 1920s) with pop-cultural appropriations of Lovecraft’s ‘Cthulhu Mythos’, within the narratives of extended fantasy. The Weird sits uneasily alongside both Fantasy and the Gothic, particularly as the two forms have been typically |
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| ISBN: | 1474430171 9781474430173 |