Contemporary Literature Ser.: Fear of Aging : Old Age in Horror Fiction and ...

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Fear of Aging: Old Age in Horror Fiction and Film\nby Joao Paulo Guimaraes\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 6\u20137 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Joao Paulo Guimaraes\nTitle: Fear of Aging: Old Age in Horror Fiction and Film\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers\nPublisher: Transcript Verlag\nPublication year: 2024\nISBN-13: 9783837661958\nISBN-10: 3837661954\nRRP: \u00A342.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn the genre of horror, elderly people are often used as a trope to evoke both a fear of death and a fear of aging. Old age is therefore equated with bodily, mental, or social decline. The contributors of this book investigate what exactly we are afraid of when we posit old age as a source of horror. T.