Authors: Chris Baldick, Oxford Staff
ISBN-13: 9780199561537, ISBN-10: 0199561532
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: May 2009
Edition: Reissue
Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmith's College, University of London. His books include In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth Century Writing and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.
Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, this work offers the first collection devoted to the Gothic genre. Each story contains the common elements of the gothic talea warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet taken together, they 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 Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jorge Luis Borges, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.
Introduction | ||
I | Beginnings | |
Sir Bertrand: A Fragment (1773) | 3 | |
The Poisoner of Montremos (1791) | 7 | |
The Friar's Tale (1792) | 12 | |
Raymond: A Fragment (1799) | 23 | |
The Parricide Punished (1799) | 27 | |
The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin (1801) | 31 | |
The Vindictive Monk or The Fatal Ring (1802) | 51 | |
II | The Nineteenth Century | |
The Astrologer's Prediction or The Maniac's Fate (1826) | 63 | |
Andreas Vesalius the Anatomist (1833) | 70 | |
Lady Eltringham or The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross (1836) | 82 | |
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) | 85 | |
A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family (1839) | 102 | |
Rappaccini's Daughter (1844) | 133 | |
Selina Sedilia (1865) | 158 | |
Jean-Ah Poquelin (1875) | 165 | |
Olalla (1885) | 183 | |
Barbara of the House of Grebe (1891) | 218 | |
Bloody Blanche (1892) | 245 | |
The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892) | 249 | |
The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892) | 264 | |
Hurst of Hurstcote (1893) | 286 | |
III | The Twentieth Century | |
A Vine on a House (1905) | 299 | |
Jordan's End (1923) | 302 | |
The Outsider (1926) | 316 | |
A Rose for Emily (1930) | 322 | |
A Rendezvous in Averoigne (1931) | 331 | |
The Monkey (1934) | 344 | |
Miss De Mannering of Asham (1935) | 386 | |
The Vampire of Kaldenstein (1938) | 407 | |
Clytie (1941) | 424 | |
Sardonicus (1961) | 435 | |
The Bloody Countess (1968) | 466 | |
The Gospel According to Mark (1970) | 478 | |
The Lady of the House of Love (1979) | 483 | |
Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl (1988) | 498 | |
Blood Disease (1988) | 502 | |
If You Touched My Heart (1991) | 519 | |
Notes | 527 |