The Color of Evil

The Color of Evil

by Shirley Jackson, H. P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Russell Kirk, John Collier, Stephen King, Lucy Clifford, David G. Hartwell, Montague Rhodes James

1991
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The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice Harbottle / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman -- Belsen express / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the ripper / Robert Bloch -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman.

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    How do the older, foundational horror tales in this collection (such as those by Hawthorne and Le Fanu) establish the groundwork for the modern psychological terror found in later stories by authors like Stephen King and Harlan Ellison?

  2. 2

    Many stories in this collection feature protagonists who are alienated from their communities or trapped in unfamiliar environments; how does physical or social isolation amplify the dread in these narratives?

  3. 3

    Consider the title "The Color of Evil"—how do different authors in this volume define or visualize malevolence, and is evil depicted as something supernatural, inherent in human nature, or a product of society?

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