{"product_id":"9781840224252-gothic-short-stories","title":"Of The Night","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e20 Gothic Stories\u003cbr\u003eThis collection contains works by such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Gaskell, Dickens and M.R. James. It brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLate in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the ‘Age of Reason’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- and-horror-story. Work by writers such as Poe, Dickens, Hawthorne, Gaskell and M. R. James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period and many lesser-known authors from Britain and America. Some of these stories, like the haunting ‘The Lame Priest’ are ‘lost masterpieces’ and several have never been anthologised before. Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling – tales of madness and violence, of shape-shifters and spectres, that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind – insanity, sexuality, death and the often terrible power of the past to catch up with the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a lively, authoritative introduction David Blair provides fresh insights and a detailed commentary on the stories’ place in the complex traditions of Gothic writing in British and American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStories include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSir Bertrand: A Fragment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaptive of the Banditti\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtracts from Gosschen’s Diary: No. 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Parricide’s Tale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Spectre Bride\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tapestried Chamber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerenice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Madman’s Manuscript\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStrange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEthan Brand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Old Nurse’s Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Body-Snatcher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Yellow Wallpaper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Death of Halpin Frayser\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanon Alberic’s Scrapbook\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo. 252 Rue M. le Prince\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lame Priest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLuella Miller\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bird in the Garden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Room in the Tower\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945573134433,"sku":"9781840224252","price":4.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38847317.jpg?v=1764383283","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781840224252-gothic-short-stories","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}