Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God - Couverture souple

Cronin, Claire

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913462056 ISBN 13 : 9781913462055

Editeur : Repeater, 2020

Synopsis

Blue Light of the Screen is a memoir about the author's obsession with horror and the supernatural.

Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid -- about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night.

A creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds its criticism of horror within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts.

As Cronin writes, she positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed archives. In this way, Blue Light of the Screen tells the story of the author's conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural.

Part memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory, Blue Light of the Screen is not just a book about horror, but a work of horror itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Claire Cronin is a writer and musician currently based in California. She has published poetry and nonfiction and is the author of the chapbook A Spirit is a Mood Without a Body. As a musician, Cronin has released records on independent labels, toured nationally, and been featured in Pitchfork and The FADER.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Repeater
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913462056
• ISBN 13: 9781913462055
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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