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Title Late Victorian Gothic tales / edited with an introduction and notes by Roger Luckhurst
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xliv, 282 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Contents Lord Arthur Savile's crime / Oscar Wilde -- Sir Edmund Orme / Henry James -- The mark of the beast / Rudyard Kipling -- The Dak bungalow at Dakor / B.M. Croker -- Lot no. 249 / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The case of Lady Sannox / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Pallinghurst barrow / Grant Allen -- Magic lantern / Jean Lorrain -- The spectral hand / Jean Lorrain -- The great god Pan / Arthur Machen -- Vaila / M.P. Shiel
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiv-xxxix)
Notes Print version record
Subject Horror tales, English.
English fiction -- 19th century.
Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Classics.
English fiction.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Horror tales, English.
Horrorerzählung
Englisch
Nouvelles fantastiques -- Anthologies.
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Genre/Form Horror tales
Horror tales.
Horror fiction.
Anthologie.
Form Electronic book
Author Luckhurst, Roger
ISBN 019151702X
9780191517020
9780192804808
0192804804
9786611346553
6611346554