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Book Gothic Tales of Terror

Download or read book Gothic Tales of Terror written by Peter Haining and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Classic horror stories from Great Britain 2. Classic horror stories from Europe and the United States

Book The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales written by Chris Baldick and published by Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

Book Uncle Montague s Tales of Terror

Download or read book Uncle Montague s Tales of Terror written by Chris Priestley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spine-tingling novel has more than enough fear factor for the most ardent fan of scary stories. Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house, but regular visits from his nephew, Edgar, give him the opportunity to recount some of the frightening stories he knows. As each tale unfolds, an eerie pattern emerges of young lives gone awry in the most terrifying of ways. Young Edgar begins to wonder just how Uncle Montague knows all these ghastly tales. This clever collection of stories-within-a-story is perfectly matched with darkly witty illustrations by David Roberts. Look for the other spine-tingling book in Chris Priestley's Tales of Terror series, Tales of Terror from the Black Ship!

Book Tales of Terror

    Book Details:
  • Author : Les Martin
  • Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2010-11-24
  • ISBN : 0307758974
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Tales of Terror written by Les Martin and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the uninvited guest wearing a creepy costume at Prince Prospero's ball? Can a man be driven mad by the "sounds" of the crime he has committed? These spine-tingling stories and others by Edgar Allan Poe are adapted for a first chapter book reader.

Book Tales of Terror from the Black Ship

Download or read book Tales of Terror from the Black Ship written by Chris Priestley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow up to Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror, this is another creepy middle grade story collection with a chilling frame. This time, the stories are all tales of the sea: pirates and plagues and storms a plenty...

Book The Literature of Terror  Volume 1

Download or read book The Literature of Terror Volume 1 written by David Punter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition was regarded as the definitive survey of Gothic and related terror writing in English. No other text considers this genre on such a scale and covers the theoretical perspectives so comprehensively. In the latest edition, the broad range of theoretical perspectives has been enlarged to include modern critical theories. Volume One is a thoroughly updated edition of the original text, covering the period from 1765 up to the Edwardian age, exploring the richness and literary diversity of the gothic form: from the original eighteenth-century gothic of Ann Radcliffe to the melodramatic fiction of Wilkie Collins.

Book The Tale of Terror

Download or read book The Tale of Terror written by Edith Birkhead and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the 'thriller' from myth and folk-tale through Walpole and Mrs Radcliffe to Poe and Le Fanu.

Book Tales of Terror and Detection

Download or read book Tales of Terror and Detection written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter" introduce C. Auguste Dupin, the first fictional detective. Also included: "William Wilson," "MS. Found in a Bottle" and "The Oblong Box."

Book Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America

Download or read book Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America written by Peter Haining and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gothic Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0198734298
  • Pages : 590 pages

Download or read book Gothic Tales written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together 33 of Arthur Conan Doyle's best Gothic Tales for the first time.

Book Irish Gothic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald Kelly
  • Publisher : Crossroad Press
  • Release : 2021-02-24
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Irish Gothic written by Ronald Kelly and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Irish eyes are dying Breath chills till time is over, Death pulls slowly graveward To rest ’neath sod and clover… Ireland… Sweet Erin…The Emerald Isle. In the bright and bonnie light of day, it is a place of beauty, history, and good humor. Of rolling green hills and stone walls at every step of a mile. A kind blessing for health and happiness, and a pint in your hand at the village pub… as well as the sound of fife and fiddle, the lilting tune of laughter, and the cheerful dance of a jig. But, as the sun takes leave and dusk descends, deep shadows and the dank of an evening mist claim the Land of Saints. Within the cloak of night, boogies and beasties roam the moors, keen for the echo of lonesome footsteps and the alluring scent of fear and dread. Banshee, selkie, leprechaun, and fairy alike. The restless spirit of the Sluagh and the bestial form of the werewolf, hungry and on the prowl. In Irish Gothic: Tales of Celtic Horror, Ronald Kelly returns to the land of his ancestry and explores the dark superstition and frightful folklore of Ol’ Éire. Seven stories of Celtic gothic terror… tales to quicken the beat of the heart and chill one’s bones to the very marrow.

Book Tales of Terror

Download or read book Tales of Terror written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Horror in the Heartland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Keven McQueen
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-16
  • ISBN : 0253029120
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Horror in the Heartland written by Keven McQueen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spooky history of the American Midwest—from grave robbers to ghost sightings and more—by the author of Creepy California. Most people think of the American Midwest as a place of wheat fields and family farms; cozy small towns and wholesome communities. But there’s more to the story of America’s Heartland—a dark history of strange tales and unsettling facts hidden just beneath its quaint pastoral image. In Horror in the Heartland, historian Keven McQueen offers a guided tour of terrible crimes and eccentric characters; haunted houses and murder-suicides; mad doctors, body snatchers, and pranks gone comically—and tragically—wrong. From tales of the booming grave-robbing industry of late 19th-century Indiana to the story of a Michigan physician who left his estate to his pet monkeys, McQueen investigates a spooky and twisted side of Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Exploring burial customs, unexplained deaths, ghost stories, premature burials, bizarre murders, peculiar wills and much more, this creepy collection reveals the region’s untold stories and offers intriguing, if sometimes macabre, insights into human nature.

Book Gothic Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2001-02-01
  • ISBN : 1101199873
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Gothic Tales written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '"The curse—the curse!" I looked up in terror. In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked, fearful self' An encounter with the supernatural in an everyday setting accentuates its strangeness; a truth used to eerie effect in Gaskell's Gothic tales. A portrait turned to the wall, a hidden manuscript, a mysterious child that lives on the freezing moors, a doppelganger formed by a woman's bitter curse: all of these things hint at male tyranny and woman as avenging angel—or devil. Gaskell was fascinated by the dualities in women's lives and the way in which fact and fiction merge. 'Disappearances', a mix of gossip, legend and fact, relates stories of mysterious vanishings, 'Lois the Witch', based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to communal hysteria and persecution, while 'The Grey Woman' explores a common Gothic theme, the way in which the ghosts of the past always return to haunt us. This edition includes an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and an appendix giving a reader's response to 'Disappearances'.

Book Gothic Tales of Terror

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Haining
  • Publisher : New York : Taplinger Publishing Company
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 944 pages

Download or read book Gothic Tales of Terror written by Peter Haining and published by New York : Taplinger Publishing Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shilling Shockers

Download or read book The Shilling Shockers written by Peter Haining and published by . This book was released on 1979-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Terror and Wonder

Download or read book Terror and Wonder written by Dale Townshend and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, specters and sprites, occupies a prominent place in contemporary Western culture. First given fictional expression in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto of 1764, the Gothic mode has continued to haunt literature, fine art, music, film, and fashion ever since its heyday in Britain in the 1790s. Terror and Wonder, which accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library, is a collection of essays that trace the numerous meanings and manifestations of the Gothic across time, tracking its prominent shifts and mutations from its 18th-century origins, through the Victorian period, and into the present day. Edited and introduced by Dale Townshend, and consisting of original contributions by Nick Groom, Angela Wright, Alexandra Warwick, Andrew Smith, Lucie Armitt, and Catherine Spooner, Terror and Wonder provides a compelling and comprehensive overview of the Gothic imagination over the past 250 years.