Horror stories : classic tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson

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The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horrors, colonial horror, and tales of mystery and premonition. This anthology brings together 29 of the greatest horror stories of the period from 1816 to 1912, from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions. It ranges widely across the sub-genres to...

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ISBN:

9780199685448
0199685444

Description:

xlii, 510 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes chronology and explanatory notes
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann
The man in the bell / William Maginn
George Dobson's expedition to hell / James Hogg
La grande bretêche / Honré de Balzac
Berenice- a tale / Edgar Allan Poe
Strange event in the life of Schalken the painter / Sheridan Le Fanu
The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Tartarus of Maids / Herman Melville
What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien
No. 1 Branch line: The signal-man / Charles Dickens
The death of Olivier Bécaille / Émile Zola
The Vivisector vivisected / Ronald Ross
The body-snatcher / Robert Louis Stevenson
The mark of the beast / Rudyard Kipling
Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce
The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The case of Lady Sannox / Arthur Conan Doyle
The squaw / Bram Stoker
The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers
Novel of the white powder / Arthur Machen
The adventure of Lady Wishaw's hand / Richard Marsh
The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs
Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Count Magnus / M.R. James
For the blood is the life / Francis Marion Crawford
The Wendigo / Algernon Blackwood
August heat / W.F. Harvey
The room in the tower / E.F. Benson
The derelict / William Hope Hodgson

LCCN:

2014930344

Control Number:

2666790

Other Authors:

Jones, Darryl, 1967- editor

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