Better Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieber's Communion (1987)

dc.citation.firstpage897en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleSocial Research: An International Quarterlyen_US
dc.citation.lastpage920en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber81en_US
dc.contributor.authorKripal, Jeffrey J.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-15T17:06:33Zen_US
dc.date.available2015-05-15T17:06:33Zen_US
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractTrauma, Trick, and Transcendence in the Life of a Horror Writer: The Case of Whitley Strieber. This essay treats the theorization of horror in Whitley Strieber's Communion (1987). It also pushes us to consider more honestly and forthrightly the question of “real monsters,” that is, the phenomenology of encounters with fantastic presences routinely experienced in the environment. Historical contextualization of Strieber's abduction experiences in the Hudson Valley region and theories of other species from Charles Fort to William James are invoked to radicalize the question further.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKripal, Jeffrey J.. "Better Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieber's Communion (1987)." <i>Social Research: An International Quarterly,</i> 81, no. 4 (2014) Johns Hopkins University Press: 897-920. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/80216">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/80216</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/80216en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
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dc.titleBetter Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieber's Communion (1987)en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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