The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape

by Tony Magistrale

Surely one of America's most popular novelists, Stephen King has only recently begun to receive serious attention from scholars and literary critics. The Dark Descent assembles fifteen illuminating original essays that consider King from a variety of intellectual orientations, addressing the major novels and central thematic concerns that represent King's contributions to American letters and elevating King scholarship to a new level of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313272972
• ISBN13: 9780313272974
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"