Paperback, 533 pages

English language

Published Jan. 2, 1993 by Oxford University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-19-283117-0
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OCLC Number:
797477147

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Horror tales
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Occult fiction