Download or read book The Italian The midnight assassin or confession of the monk Rinaldi containing a complete history of his dreadful crimes and the unparalleled sufferings of Amanda Lusigni etc written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic written by Clive Bloom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
Download or read book The History of Gothic Publishing 1800 1835 written by F. Potter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to the desperate hack writers who created the short tales of terror. From the Gothic publishers to the circulating libraries, this study explores the conflict between the canon and the twilight, and between the disreputable and the moral.
Download or read book The Monster Made by Man written by Franz J. Potter and published by Zittaw Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of nine rare Gothic tales has been assembled to represent a wide range of adaptations, redactions, plagiarisms and condensations of Gothic motifs and characterisations in the 1820s and 1830s. From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, The Monster Made By Man illustrates the evolution of the Gothic genre and revisits what is most horrifying- the familiar.
Download or read book The Deformed Transformed written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bloody Hand written by Sarah Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceedingly rare Gothic bluebook epitomizes the short tale of terror as the Gothic began to evolve and change its course. Frederick Frank in The First Gothics describes the bluebook as "Wild, crude, incredible, sensational, THE BLOODY HAND is an average sample of what the Gothic public bought and devoured in 1800."(pg. 32) The plot of the Bloody Hand encompasses the vast arsenal of Gothic motifs from the terrors of the Illuminati, a revengeful monk, monastic imprisonment to death by poison, to persecution of a one-handed monk. Set during the turbulent French Revolution, the chapbook chronicles the O'Mara family's adventures, who are bound to suffer for the sins of a grandfather who was cursed by a vindictive monk. The frantic narrative underscores the potential of the short tale of terror and reflects the readers' shifting interests from long Gothic novels to short shocking doses of horror.
Download or read book Albert of Werdendorff Or the Midnight Embrace written by Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This strongly moralistic and didactic tale narrates the seduction and murder of the innocent Josephine by the libertine Lord Albert. Written in 1812 by Sarah Wilkinson and published by Ann Lemoine, the chapbook is an adaptation of the ballad 'Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine' by Matthew Lewis which originally appeared in The Monk in 1796. The ballad relates the woeful tale of Imogine, who promises fidelity to Alonzo, but falls in love with a wealthy baron. Alonzo, who has perished in battle, comes to reclaim his 'bride' at her wedding, dragging her to hell for breaking her promise. Wilkinson's adaptation weaves a supernatural tale with didacticism creating a moralistic thriller.An excellent example of 'Trade' Gothic, Albert of Werdendorff illustrates the transformation and adaptation of the 'canonical' Gothic during the early nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Mysterious Spaniard written by Anonymous and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Spaniard by an anonymous author is about Chevalier Franval who must watch his sister and find out the identity and true motivations of the nameless Spaniard at the inn where he resides. Excerpt: "THE Chevalier Franval, and his sister Amarylla, were the only children of a French General of great reputation, who died at the beginning of the last century, at an elegant villa to which he had retired in the evening of his days, at the distance of a few leagues from the city of Paris. At the time of her father's death, Amarylla was receiving her education in the convent of St. Ann at Aurillac."
Download or read book Ivanhoe or the Jew and his daughter Founded on Sir Walter Scott s Romance written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of Wonder written by Matthew Gregory Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cavern of Horrors written by and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cavern of Death written by Allen W. Grove and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a three year absence and a terrifying journey through the Black Forest, young Sir Albert has returned to Dornheim, eager to see again his friend Lord Frederic and his true love, the lady Constance. But his joy on his homecoming is short-lived when he learns he has rivals for Constance's love. The Baron of Dornheim is set to marry her in three days, and anxious to prevent the marriage and wed her himself, Frederic solicits the horrified Albert to assassinate the Baron. Determined to spare Constance a future with either the aged Dornheim or the murderous Frederic, Albert plots to rescue her from her father's castle. But when their plans are discovered, and a band of assassins are sent to murder Albert, he flees to the haunted Cavern of Death, where a phantom, a skeleton, and a bloody sword will reveal an unspeakable murder and the long-concealed secret of his own birth. Phenomenally popular in both England and the United States upon its publication in 1794, The Cavern of Death was among the most influential and widely-read of early Gothic novels. This new edition includes a new introduction and notes for modern readers.
Download or read book Ancient Records written by T. J. Horsley Curties and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Endless Entertainment Or Comic Terrific and Legendary Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Animated Skeleton written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in France during the Dark Ages, where the good Count Richard has mysteriously disappeared and the usurper Albert and his evil wife Brunchilda reign tyrannically in his place, The Animated Skeleton is a masterpiece of Gothic horror. Brunchilda has marked out the unfortunate peasants Jacquemar and Grodern for her vengeance, but her plots will be foiled by the animated skeleton that haunts the castle, a skeleton which just may hold the key to Richard's fate A bestseller when first published in 1798, The Animated Skeleton features an unusual blend of horror and dark comedy unlike any other Gothic novel. This edition, the first in more than two centuries, includes a new foreword and notes to put the novel in context for modern readers.
