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Cover art by Judith Clute.

An eclectic collection includes 47 essays and talks, several of which have not been published previously.

Everything has been revised from its previous appearance in print (with exception of Next, Lunch with AJ and the WOMBATS, the five Interzone Introductions and Joan Aiken: an Appreciation), or is now published for the first time.

Title is a reference to the first words spoken by Frankenstein's Monster in the seminal 19th century novel by Mary Shelley.

Author, critic, and scholar John Clute has assembled exclusively for Payseur & Schmidt a collection of thirty interlinked essays illuminating the evolution of horror and the horrific. The hidden meanings and dark secrets of horror literature are unraveled with explorations of vastation, affect horror, holocaust fiction, cloaca, and the bound fantastic, to name a few. This complex, chthonic journey cross-references to Clute's Encyclopedia of Fantasy and acts as a set of arguments about the nature of horror that would underpin Clute's future encyclopedic work on the subject of the fantastic.

An addition, each entry is accompanied by a brand new illustration by one of thirty hand-picked artists, including Jay Ryan, Tara McPherson, and Steven Weissman. Cover and endpapers illustrated by Jason Van Hollander.

165 pages. Signed and numbered limited hardback first edition of 500. Deluxe stamped cover with screen-printed sash illustrated by Adam Grano.

This masterful follow-up to the 1993 Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is an essential purchase for anyone who's serious about fantasy. Those who are serious about horror will also find it an excellent reference. The works of prolific and confusing