Late Victorian Gothic Tales
by Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
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This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890's, 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 show more blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantastic show lessTags
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Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a specialist in science fiction and the Gothic. His many books include The Angle between Two Walk: The Fiction of J.G. Ballard (1997) and Science Fiction: A Cultural History (2005). He has also edited several Oxford World's Classics, including H.G. show more Wells' The time Machine (2017). show less
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- Canonical title
- Late Victorian Gothic Tales
- Original publication date
- 2005
- Original language
- English
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- Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 823.087290808 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction
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- PR1309 .H6 .L38 — Language and Literature English English Literature Collections of English literature
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