Six Gothic Tales

Six Gothic Tales
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 644
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ISBN-10 : 0895770601
ISBN-13 : 9780895770608
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Six Gothic Tales by :

This collection includes tales by Daphne du Maurier, Evelyn Anthony, Victoria Holt, Jessica North, Phyllis Whitney, and Madeleine Brent.

Japanese Gothic Tales

Japanese Gothic Tales
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 0824817893
ISBN-13 : 9780824817893
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Japanese Gothic Tales by : Kyoka Izumi

Resisting the various forms of realism popular during the Meiji "enlightenment," Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939) was among the most popular writers who continued to work in the old-fashioned genres of fantasy, mystery, and romance. Gothic Tales makes available for the first time a collection of stories by this highly influential writer, whose decadent romanticism led him to envision an idiosyncratic world--a fictive purgatory --precious and bizarre though always genuine despite its melodramatic formality. The four stories presented here are among Kyoka's best-known works. They are drawn from four stages of the author's development, from the "conceptual novels" of 1895 to the fragmented romanticism of his mature work. In the way of introduction, Inouye presents a clear analysis of Kyoka's problematic stature as a "great gothic writer" and emphasizes the importance of Kyoka's work to the present reevaluation of literary history in general and modern Japanese literature in particular. The extensive notes that follow the translation serve as an intelligent guide for the reader, supplying details about each of the stories and how they fit into the pattern of mythic development that allowed Kyoka to deal with his fears in a way that sustained his life and, as Mishima Yukio put it, pushed the Japanese language to its highest potential.

American Gothic Tales

American Gothic Tales
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 561
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ISBN-10 : 9780452274891
ISBN-13 : 0452274893
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis American Gothic Tales by : Various

This remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imagination makes for great literature in the works of forty-six exceptional writers. Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark psychological bonds between Henry James and Stephen King. In showing us the gothic vision—a world askew where mankind’s forbidden impulses are set free from the repressions of the psyche, and nature turns malevolent and lawless—Joyce Carol Oates includes Henry James’s “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” Herman Melville’s horrific tale of factory women, “The Tartarus of Maids,” and Edith Wharton’s “Afterward,” which are rarely collected and appear together here for the first time. Added to these stories of the past are new ones that explore the wounded worlds of Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Raymond Carver, and more than twenty other wonderful contemporary writers. This impressive collection reveals the astonishing scope of the gothic writer’s subject matter, style, and incomparable genius for manipulating our emotions and penetrating our dreams. With Joyce Carol Oates’s superb introduction, American Gothic Tales is destined to become the standard one-volume edition of the genre that American writers, if they didn’t create it outright, have brought to its chilling zenith.

Night Shade

Night Shade
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Publisher : Seal Press (CA)
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 1580050247
ISBN-13 : 9781580050241
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Night Shade by : Victoria A. Brownworth

A collection of stories by such women authors as Joanne Dahme, Roz Warren, Joyce Wagner, Jean Stewart, and Linda K. Wright

Seven Gothic Tales

Seven Gothic Tales
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1132895164
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Seven Gothic Tales by : Isak Dinesen

The Witches of Kyiv

The Witches of Kyiv
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Publisher : Sova Books
Total Pages : 94
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ISBN-10 : 9780987594396
ISBN-13 : 0987594397
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Witches of Kyiv by : Orest Somov

In The Witches of Kyiv and Other Gothic Tales by Orest Somov the supernatural is present throughout Ukraine, from a cemetery in Kyivan Rus, to an isolated forest cottage in the seventeenth century Kozak era, to the society ballrooms of Somov’s own world – the early nineteenth century. Gothic horror appears in many guises including witches, warlocks, demons and vengeful ‘rusalka’. Strange soothsayers and malevolent visitors represent the forces of good and evil. In her foreword Dr Svitlana Krys describes Somov “as an initiator of an indigenous literary tradition of the Gothic in the Ukrainian literary canon”. Native folk traditions, ghost stories and European Romanticism are twisted together in Somov’s imaginative tales, most of which are published here in English for the first time.

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn
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Publisher : Back Bay Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0316575224
ISBN-13 : 9780316575225
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Jamaica Inn by : Daphne du Maurier

From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "rich in suspense and surprise" (New York Times Book Review). On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust. The inspiration for the 1939 Alfred Hitchcock film.

A Gothic Treasure Trove

A Gothic Treasure Trove
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 644
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ISBN-10 : 0895772280
ISBN-13 : 9780895772282
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

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Haunted Castles

Haunted Castles
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780143129318
ISBN-13 : 0143129317
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Haunted Castles by : Ray Russell

Horror legend Ray Russell’s haunting and macabre stories, including “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written” (Stephen King), with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell’s masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of “Sardonicus,” “Sanguinarius,” and “Sagittarius.” The characters that sprawl through Haunted Castles are frightful to the core: the heartless monster holding two lovers in limbo; the beautiful dame journeying down a damned road toward depravity (with the help of an evil gypsy); the man who must wear his fatal crimes on his face in the form of an awful smile. Engrossing, grotesque, and completely entrancing, Russell’s Gothic tales are the best kind of dreadful. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Gothic Tales of Haunted Love

Gothic Tales of Haunted Love
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1988715075
ISBN-13 : 9781988715070
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Gothic Tales of Haunted Love by : Various

This anthology revitalises the stale gothic romance genre with stories span-ning across centuries and the world. A Sioux woman returns from the grave seeking true love. A young boy and his ghostly boyfriend dodge American soldiers and landmines in 1970s Vi-etnam. A young mother in slavery faces demons on the eve of liberation in 1800s Jamaica. A Brazilian writer-in-exile discovers his sanctuary's dark secrets - and the burning touch of a ghostly lord.