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The Gothic tale has been with us for over two hundred years, but this collection is the first to illustrate the continuing strength of this special fictional tradition from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Gothic fiction is generally identified with Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and the works of Ann Radcliffe, and with heroes and heroines menaced by feudal villains amid crumbling ruins. While the repertoire of claustrophobic settings, gloomy themes and threatening atmosphere established the Gothic genre, later writers from Poe onwards achieved an ever greater sophistication, and a shift in emphasis from cruelty to decadence. Modern Gothic is distinguished by its imaginative variety of voice, from the chilling depiction of a disordered mind to the sinister suggestion of vampirism. This anthology brings together the work of writers such as Le Fanu, Hawthorne, Hardy, Faulkner, and Borges with their earliest literary forebears, and emphasizes the central role of women writers from Anna Laetitia Aikin to Isabel Allende. While the Gothic tale shares some characteristics with the ghost story and tales of horror and fantasy, the present volume triumphantly celebrates the distinctive features that define this powerful and unsettling literary form.

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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
2009, Oxford University Press
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1993, Oxford University Press
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1992, Oxford University Press
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Oxford [England], New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.83/8729
Library of Congress
PN6120.95.G64 O95 1992, PN6120.95.G64O95

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 533 p. ;
Number of pages
533

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1547868M
ISBN 10
0192141945
LCCN
91027290
OCLC/WorldCat
24174052
LibraryThing
278172
Goodreads
2000912

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2963651W

Work Description

Part 1 Beginnings:
"Sir Bertrand - A Fragment" (1773), Anna Laetitia Aiken
"The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791), Richard Cumberland
"The Friar's Tale" (1792), Anonymous
"Raymond - A Fragment (1799), "Juvenis"
"The Parricide Punished" (1799), Anonymous
"The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin" (1801), Anonymous
"The Vindictive Monk, or The Fatal Ring" (1802), Isaac Crookenden.

Part 2 The 19th century:
"The Astrologer's Prediction or the Maniac's Fate" (1826), Anonymous
"Andreas Vesalius the Anatomist" (1833), Petrus Borel
"Lady Eltringham or The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross" (1836), J. Wadham
"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), Edgar Allan Poe
"A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" (1839), Sheridan Le Fanu
"Rappacini's Daughter" (1844), Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Selina Sedilia" (1865), Bret Harte
"Jean-Ah Poquelin" (1875), George Washington Cable
"Olalla" (1885), Robert Louis Stevenson
"Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1891), Thomas Hardy
"Bloody Blanche" (1892), Marcel Schwob
"The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892), Charlotte Perkins Stetson
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle
"Hurst of Hurstcote" (1893), E. Nesbit.

Part 3 The 20th century:
"A Vine on the House" (1905), Ambrose Bierce
"Jordan's End" (1923), Ellen Glasgow
"The Outsider" (1926), H.P. Lovecraft
"A Rose for Emily" (1930), William Faulkner
"A Rendezvous in Averoigne" (1931), Clark Ashton Smith
"The Monkey" (1934), Isak Dinesen
"Miss De Mannering of Asham" (1935), F.M. Mayor
"The Vampire of Kaldenstein" (1938), Frederick Cowles
"Clytie" (1941), Eudora Welty
"Sardonicus" (1961), Ray Russell
"The Bloody Countess" (1968), Alejandra Pizarnik
"The Gospel According to Mark" (1970), Jorge Luis Borges
"The Lady of the House of Love" (1979), Angela Carter
"Secret Observations of the Goat-Girl" (1988), Joyce Carol Oates
"Blood Disease" (1988), Patrick McGrath
"If You Touched My Heart" (1991), Isabel Allende.

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