Contents
Editor’s Note vii
Introduction 1
Harold Bloom
The Dark Stories 3
William L. Nance
The Imagination of Fact: Capote to Mailer 23
Alfred Kazin
Gothic as Vortex: The Form of Horror
in Capote, Faulkner, and Styron 43
J. Douglas Perry, Jr.
Living the American Dream:
“Children on Their Birthdays” 57
Lee Zacharias
The Legend on the License 67
John Hersey
“Fire, Fire, Fire Flowing Like a River,
River, River”: History and Postmodernism
in Truman Capote’s Handcarved Coffins 87
Jack Hicks
Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood 99
Ann M. Algeo
“The Last to See Them Alive”:
Panopticism, the Supervisory Gaze,
and Catharsis in Capote’s In Cold Blood 121
Trenton Hickman
He Would Have Been a Good Man:
Compassion and Meanness in
Truman Capote and Flannery O’Connor 135
Marshall Bruce Gentry
“Some Unheard-of Thing”: Freaks,
Families, and Coming of Age in
Carson McCullers and Truman Capote 151
Thomas Fahy
Cold-Blooded Journalism: Truman Capote
and the Non-Fiction Novel 173
Nick Nuttall
Chronology 189
Contributors 191
Bibliography 193
Acknowledgments 196
Index 198
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