Late Victorian Gothic tales /

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Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (xliv, 282 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subject:	Horror tales, English. English fiction -- 19th century. Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain. English fiction. Gothic revival (Literature) Horror tales, English. Great Britain. Horror tales. Horror tales.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178436

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Other authors / contributors:	Luckhurst, Roger.
ISBN:	019151702X 9780191517020 9780192804808 0192804804 9786611346553 6611346554 0192804804
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiv-xxxix). Print version record.
Summary:	This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment. - ;'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantasti.
Other form:	Print version: Late Victorian Gothic tales. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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