{"product_id":"popular-witchcraft-straight-from-the-witchs-mouth-paperback","title":"Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Fritscher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a thoughtful, well-informed study exploring fiction from throughout Stephen King's immense oeuvre, Heidi Strengell shows how this popular writer enriches his unique brand of horror by building on the traditions of his literary heritage. Tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to reveal contemporary phobias, King invokes the abnormal and repressed sexuality of the vampire, the hubris of Frankenstein, the split identity of the werewolf, the domestic melodrama of the ghost tale. Drawing on myths and fairy tales, he creates characters who, like the heroic Roland the Gunslinger and the villainous Randall Flagg, may either reinforce or subvert the reader's childlike faith in society. And, in the manner of the naturalist tradition, he reinforces a tension between the free will of the individual and the daunting hand of fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Fritscher is the author of fifteen books and hundreds of articles on American popular culture. He was ordained an exorcist in 1963 by the Catholic Church, which later excommunicated him for his memoir, \u003ci\u003eWhat They Did to the Kid: Confessions of an Altar Boy\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the founding San Francisco editor of the legendary \u003ci\u003eDrummer\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and he has written the pop-culture memoir-novel \u003ci\u003eSome Dance to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e and the biography, \u003ci\u003eMapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9.14 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45310105321574,"sku":"9780299203047","price":53.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/NjRJdERDaDBhQm9rczU2ZWF6NTlmdz09.webp?v=1774227040","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/popular-witchcraft-straight-from-the-witchs-mouth-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}