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Published on: 1992-05-14
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Original language: English

"But sometimes when I wake in the grey morning, and between waking and sleeping, think of all those things that I must shut out from my sleeping and waking thoughts, I wonder was I right or was he Was he mad, or was I idiotically incredulous For--and it is this thing that haunts me--when I found them dead together in the vault, she had been buried five weeks. But the body that lay in John Hurst's arms, among the mouldering coffins of the Hursts of Hurstcote, was perfect and beautiful as when he first clasped her to his arms, a bride." E. Nesbit's "The Hursts of Hurstcote" is only one of the many stories found in The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, the first anthology of this spinetingling genre. Though Gothic fiction has generally been identified with Walpole's"Castle of Otranto" and the works of Ann Radcliffe, these thirty-seven selections compiled by Chris Baldick provide a unique look at the genre's development into its present-day forms. We see standard gothic elements of incest, murder, and greed in "The Poisoner of Montremos," a late eighteenth-century story by Richard Cumberland. We find in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" the tale that set a new standard of decadence for Gothic stories. In Hawthorne's "Rappacini's Daughter," a young girl is raised on the very essence of poison. In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," a woman's death satisfies a neighborhood's curiosity with a bizarre discovery. In other tales, a ghost reveals his sin of parricide, madness drives a man to murder,and a young girl spends her lifetime locked in a single room. All these stories and more contain the common elements of the gothic tale: a warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, dynastic corruption, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet they also 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 Robert Louis Stevenson, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Jorge Luis Borges, Eudora Welty, Patrick McGrath, and Isabel Allende, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror. Gothic fiction - Wikipedia Gothic fiction which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror death and at ... THE SHORT OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE THE SHORT OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Andrew Sanders CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD 1994 Oxford University Press Walton Sheet Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms - Oxford Reference Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords ... Sacred Texts - Buddhism Chinese Buddhism by Joseph Edkins [1893] A comprehensive discussion of Chinese Buddhism. Buddhism In Tibet by Emil Schlaginteweit [1863] One of the few 19th century ... Celtic Fairies - Internet Sacred Text Archive: Celtic Folklore Ireland. The Voyage of Bran by Meyer Kuno [1895] Old Irish saga of a voyage to the pagan Celtic otherworld with parallel English and Gaelic. The Second Battle of Mag ... A Look at the Evolution of Popular Gothic Literature A Look at the Evolution of Popular Gothic Literature. Gothic tales of mystery suspense and terror include elements pertaining to both horror and romance. Fantom Films Critically-acclaimed audio book reader Barnaby Edwards performs 11 tales of ghostly gothic spookiness in a collection from Spoken World released on CD for ... O.U.M.N.H. What's On - Oxford University Museum of Natural ... What's on at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History ... Lives at the Top A small display celebrating the Museums Victorian glass roof. University of Oxford - Wikipedia The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University or simply Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford England United Kingdom. J.R.R. Tolkien C. S. Lewis Literary Friendship and ... by Ethan Gilsdorf. OxfordI had vowed to take Dead Mans Walk. To sneak into Gothic-trimmed courtyards. To wander beside the shadow of J. R. R. Tolkien the ...
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