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The Breach is the second book in The Dome series, a gripping thriller about a young man’s immersion in the world of refugees suffering from the catastrophic consequences of climate change. “The twenty-first century is the age of climate change, one that will determine the future of humanity.” “A frightening glimpse into the near future, a wake-up call.” “A thrilling mix of fiction and facts in a story touching upon the refugee problem in the age of climate change.” After his return from Greenland, Dylan Myers goes back to his comfortable live in his compound in Denmark, safely shielded from the harsh and inhospitable place that the world has become. But a strange and unexpected meeting with a friend gets him sucked up into a living nightmare with no way out. Meanwhile, inside the Dome, Elliot discovers the shocking truth his father had been hiding from him.

Suspense fiction

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De zeventienjarige Raven wordt levenloos in het stadspark gevonden. Er hangt een zweem van mysterie rond zijn dood en al snel doen allerlei geruchten de ronde. Zijn beste vriend Perre is in shock en springt een dag later van de kerktoren zijn dood tegemoet. De politie gaat uit van een wanhoopsdaad, maar zijn moeder Emilie kan niet geloven dat haar zoon zoiets zou doen. Wanneer Emilie enkele weken later voor de zoveelste nacht wakker ligt, ziet ze in het halfduister hoe de schommel in de tuin langzaam heen en weer beweegt. Even denkt ze dat haar ogen een spel met haar spelen, maar niet veel later gebeuren een aantal onverklaarbare dingen op Perres kamer. Ze beseft al snel dat er meer aan de hand is. Bij toeval hoort Emilie het verhaal van Caro Westerhof, de jonge vrouw die contact kan leggen met mensen over de dood heen. Ten einde raad zoekt ze Caro op. Maar kan Caro de vraag die Emilies leven ondraaglijk maakt wel beantwoorden? En is Emilie echt in staat om de vreselijke waarheid achter Perres dood te aanvaarden?

Dutch literature --- Suspense fiction

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By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothicthe literature of disturbance and uncertaintynow produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siecle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Gothic horror tales (Literary genre) --- Gothic novels (Literary genre) --- Gothic romances (Literary genre) --- Gothic tales (Literary genre) --- Romances, Gothic (Literary genre) --- Detective and mystery stories --- Horror tales --- Suspense fiction

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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than reason and when Horace Walpole created Strawberry Hill House, a gleaming white castle on the banks of the Thames, he had to create new words to describe the experience of gothic lifestyle. Nevertheless, Walpole's house produced nightmares and his book The Castle of Otranto was the first truly gothic novel, with supernatural, sensational and Shakespearean elements challenging the emergent fiction of social relationships. The novel's themes of violence, tragedy, death, imprisonment, castle battlements, dungeons, fair maidens, secrets, ghosts and prophecies led to a new genre encompassing prose, theatre, poetry and painting, whilst opening up a whole world of imagination for entrepreneurial female writers such as Mary Shelley, Joanna Baillie and Ann Radcliffe, whose immensely popular books led to the intense inner landscapes of the Bronte sisters. Matthew Lewis's The Monk created a new gothic: atheistic, decadent, perverse, necrophilic and hellish. The social upheaval of the French Revolution and the emergence of the Romantic movement with its more intense (and often) atheistic self-absorption led the gothic into darker corners of human experience with a greater emphasis on the inner life, hallucination, delusion, drug addiction, mental instability, perversion and death and the emerging science of psychology. The intensity of the German experience led to an emphasis on doubles and schizophrenic behaviour, ghosts, spirits, mesmerism, the occult and hell. This volume charts the origins of this major shift in social perceptions and completes a trilogy of Palgrave Handbooks on the Gothic--combined they provide an exhaustive survey of current research in Gothic studies, a go-to for students and researchers alike.

Sociology of culture --- Film --- Gothic --- film --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Gothic literature. --- Gothic revival (Art) --- European literature --- Gothic horror tales (Literary genre) --- Gothic novels (Literary genre) --- Gothic romances (Literary genre) --- Gothic tales (Literary genre) --- Romances, Gothic (Literary genre) --- Detective and mystery stories --- Horror tales --- Suspense fiction --- History. --- Art, Modern --- Arts, Modern --- Revival movements (Art)

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Weird Fiction: A Genre Study presents a comprehensive, contemporary analysis of the genre of weird fiction by identifying the concepts that influence and produce it. Focusing on the sources of narrative content—how the content is produced and what makes something weird—Michael Cisco engages with theories from Deleuze and Guattari to explain how genres work and to understand the relationship between identity and the ordinary. Cisco also uses these theories to examine the supernatural not merely as a horde of tropes, but as a recognition of the infinity of experience in defiance of limiting norms. The book also traces the sociopolitical implications of weird fiction, studying the differentiation of major and minor literatures. Through an articulated theoretical model and close textual analysis, readers will learn not only what weird fiction is, but how and why it is produced.

Paranormal fiction --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Science fiction --- History and criticism. --- Gothic horror tales (Literary genre) --- Gothic novels (Literary genre) --- Gothic romances (Literary genre) --- Gothic tales (Literary genre) --- Romances, Gothic (Literary genre) --- Detective and mystery stories --- Horror tales --- Suspense fiction --- Occult fiction --- Occult stories --- Occultism --- Paranormal stories --- Parapsychology --- Supernatural --- Witchcraft --- Fiction --- Metaphysics. --- Metaphysics --- Research. --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Fiction. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature --- Goth culture (Subculture). --- Fiction Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Literary Criticism. --- Gothic Studies. --- Gothic culture (Subculture) --- Subculture --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation