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008 950216s1995 ilu 000 1 eng
010 $a 95009750
020 $a0226756882 (cloth)
020 $a0226756890 (paper)
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050 00 $aPR9492.5$b.S54 1995
082 00 $a823$220
100 1 $aSiegel, Lee,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81131000
245 10 $aCity of dreadful night :$ba story about horror and the macabre in India /$cLee Siegel.
260 $aChicago, Ill. :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1995.
263 $a9510
300 $a255 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aCity of Dreadful Night is an astonishing work of fiction, a tangle of tales that transports the reader from the Medieval India of magicians, witches, and vampires, through the British colonial period with its culture clashes and simmering unrest, into the chaos and political terror of contemporary India. Flesh-eating demons, Rajiv Gandhi's assassin, even Bram Stoker and Dracula populate the serpentine narrative, which intermingles stories about the characters with the terrifying tales they tell.
520 8 $aAt the heart of the book is an itinerant teller of ghost tales called Brahm Kathuwala, an old man wearing amulets around his neck and a silk top hat with peacock plumes. As Siegel follows him all over north India, Brahm's life story is revealed through countless interlocking tales. We learn of his two mothers - one the destitute floor sweeper who bore him; the other a wealthy Irish woman who read and reread to him the story of Dracula.
520 8 $aWe hear of his marriage to the daughter of a cremation ground attendant and his battles against her demonic possession. We come to understand the strange life of this man who uses terrifying tales to ward off the evil he himself fears.
650 0 $aIndic fiction (English)$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004817
650 0 $aHorror in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004705
650 0 $aDeath in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036108
651 0 $aVārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)$xIn literature.
650 0 $aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104413
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR9492.5$i.S54 1995