Selected & Edited with an Introduction & Notes by David Blair University of Kent at Canterbury Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write Gothic' stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational the supernatural & the bizarre which had been neglected in the Age of Reason' This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th & early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- &-horror-story Work by writers such as Poe Dickens Hawthorne Gaskell & M R James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period & many lesser-known authors from Britain & America Some of these stories like the haunting The Lame Priest' are lost masterpieces' & several have never been anthologised before Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling
- tales of madness & violence of shape-shifters & spectres that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind
- insanity sexuality death & the often terrible power of the past to catch up with the present In a lively authoritative introduction David Blair provides fresh insights & a detailed commentary on the stories' place in the complex traditions of Gothic writing in British & American literature

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Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real & the supernatural to eerie compelling effect ' Disappearances' inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings mixes gossip & fact; ' Lois the Witch' a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts shows how sexual desire & jealousy lead to hysteria; while in ' The Old Nurse's Story' a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors Whether darkly surreal such as ' The Poor Clare' where an evil doppelganger is formed by a woman's bitter curse or mischievous like ' Curious if True' a playful reworking of fairy tales all the stories in this volume form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell's novels revealing a darker & more unsettling style of writing ...

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