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9780192862198

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

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    9780192862198

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-11-19
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

Author Biography


Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmith's College, University of London. His books include In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth Century Writing and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
I. BEGINNINGS
Sir Bertrand: A Fragment (1773)
3(4)
Anna Laetitia Aikin
The Poisoner of Montremos (1791)
7(5)
Richard Cumberland
The Friar's Tale (1792)
Anonymous
12(11)
Raymond: A Fragment (1799)
`Fuvenis'
23(4)
The Parricide Punished (1799)
Anonymous
27(4)
The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin (1801)
Anonymous
31(20)
The Vindictive Monk or The Fatal Ring (1802)
51(12)
Isaac Crookenden
II. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
The Astrologer's Prediction or The Maniac's Fate (1826)
Anonymous
63(7)
Andreas Vesalius the Anatomist (1833)
70(12)
Petrus Borel
Lady Eltringham or The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross (1836)
82(3)
J. Wadham
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
85(17)
Edgar Allan Poe
A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family (1839)
102(31)
Sheridan Le Fanu
Rappaccini's Daughter (1844)
133(25)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selina Sedilia (1865)
158(7)
Bret Harte
Jean-Ah Poquelin (1875)
165(18)
George Washington Cable
Olalla (1885)
183(35)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Barbara of the House of Grebe (1891)
218(27)
Thomas Hardy
Bloody Blanche (1892)
245(4)
Marcel Schwob
The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892)
249(15)
Charlotte Perkins Stetson
The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892)
264(22)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Hurst of Hurstcote (1893)
286(13)
E. Nesbit
III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
A Vine on a House (1905)
299(3)
Ambrose Bierce
Jordan's End (1923)
302(14)
Ellen Glasgow
The Outsider (1926)
316(6)
H. P. Lovecraft
A Rose For Emily (1930)
322(9)
William Faulkner
A Rendezvous in Averoigne (1931)
331(13)
Clark Ashton Smith
The Monkey (1934)
344(42)
Isak Dinesen
Miss De Mannering of Asham (1935)
386(21)
F. M. Mayor
The Vampire of Kaldenstein (1938)
407(17)
Frederick Cowles
Clytie (1941)
424(11)
Eudora Welty
Sardonicus (1961)
435(31)
Ray Russell
The Bloody Countess (1968)
466(12)
Alejandra Pizarnik
The Gospel According to Mark (1970)
478(5)
Jorge Luis Borges
The Lady of the House of Love (1979)
483(15)
Angela Carter
Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl (1988)
498(4)
Joyce Carol Oates
Blood Disease (1988)
502(17)
Patrick McGrath
If You Touched My Heart (1991)
519(8)
Isabel Allende
Notes 527

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