The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
by Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken, Richard Cumberland, Anonymous, Juvenis., Isaac Crookenden, Petrus Borel, John Wadham, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte, George Washington Cable, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Marcel Schwob, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Nesbit, Ambrose Bierce, Ellen Glasgow, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Clark Ashton Smith, Isak Dinesen, F.M. Mayor, Frederick Ignatius Cowles, Eudora Welty, Ray Russell, Alejandra Pizarnik, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, Patrick McGrath, and Isabel Allende
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Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, this work offers the first collection devoted to the Gothic genre. Each story contains the common elements of the gothic tale--a warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet taken together, they reveal the progression of the genre from stories of feudal villains amid crumbling ruins to a greater level of sophistication in which writers brought the gothic tale out of its medieval setting, and placed it in the contemporary world. Bringing together the work of such writers as Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jorge Luis Borges, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.
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tradition, change, death, short stories, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, Fiction, amorality, Anglo-Saxons, aristocracy, detective fiction, Juvenile audience, locked-room mysteries, Mystery and detective stories, Drama, Private investigators, Children's fiction, Gothic fiction (literary genre), Horror tales, Fantasy fiction, Paranormal fiction, Gothic revival (Literature), Supernatural, FictionAmerican Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, short storyPeople
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Originally published: 1992.
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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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