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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

(Oxford Books of Prose)

By Chris Baldick

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| Paperback | 9780192862198

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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
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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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  • Pine Trees and Vices

    What an agreeable moment it used to be in horror films when the heroine arose from her bed in the old castle where she was staying the weekend and throwing a negligée over her nightdress began to wander with hypnotised stealth along the dark corridor ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  • An extensive, well thought collection of Gothic novels.
    It would be a must-read if you like the Gothic genre, but if that is the case, chances are you have already red most of the novels in this book

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 560 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0192862197
  • ISBN-13: 9780192862198
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Pub date: Nov 19, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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