The Oxford book of gothic tales /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992. |
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| Description: | xxiii, 533 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1329214 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Beginnings. Sir Bertrand: A Fragment (1773) / Anna Laetitia Aikin. 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
- II. The Nineteenth 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 a Tyrone Family (1839) / Sheridan Le Fanu. Rappaccini'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
- III. The Twentieth Century. A Vine on a 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 on the Goat-Girl (1988) / Joyce Carol Oates. Blood Disease (1988) / Patrick McGrath. If You Touched My Heart (1991) / Isabel Allende.