The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
By: edited by Chris Baldick.
Contributors: Baldick, Chris.
Edition: printing (6)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9780192831170
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Horror tales; Fantasy fiction; Occult fiction
Other titles: Gothic tales.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-533).
Table of contents: title: Part 1 Beginnings:; title: "Sir Bertrand - A Fragment" (1773), Anna Laetitia Aiken; title: "The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791), Richard Cumberland; title: "The Friar's Tale" (1792), Anonymous; title: "Raymond - A Fragment (1799), "Juvenis"; title: "The Parricide Punished" (1799), Anonymous; title: "The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin" (1801), Anonymous; title: "The Vindictive Monk, or The Fatal Ring" (1802), Isaac Crookenden.; title: Part 2 The 19th century:; title: "The Astrologer's Prediction or the Maniac's Fate" (1826), Anonymous; title: "Andreas Vesalius the Anatomist" (1833), Petrus Borel; title: "Lady Eltringham or The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross" (1836), J. Wadham; title: "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), Edgar Allan Poe; title: "A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" (1839), Sheridan Le Fanu; title: "Rappacini's Daughter" (1844), Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: "Selina Sedilia" (1865), Bret Harte; title: "Jean-Ah Poquelin" (1875), George Washington Cable; title: "Olalla" (1885), Robert Louis Stevenson; title: "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1891), Thomas Hardy; title: "Bloody Blanche" (1892), Marcel Schwob; title: "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892), Charlotte Perkins Stetson; title: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle; title: "Hurst of Hurstcote" (1893), E. Nesbit.; title: Part 3 The 20th century:; title: "A Vine on the House" (1905), Ambrose Bierce; title: "Jordan's End" (1923), Ellen Glasgow; title: "The Outsider" (1926), H.P. Lovecraft; title: "A Rose for Emily" (1930), William Faulkner; title: "A Rendezvous in Averoigne" (1931), Clark Ashton Smith; title: "The Monkey" (1934), Isak Dinesen; title: "Miss De Mannering of Asham" (1935), F.M. Mayor; title: "The Vampire of Kaldenstein" (1938), Frederick Cowles; title: "Clytie" (1941), Eudora Welty; title: "Sardonicus" (1961), Ray Russell; title: "The Bloody Countess" (1968), Alejandra Pizarnik; title: "The Gospel According to Mark" (1970), Jorge Luis Borges; title: "The Lady of the House of Love" (1979), Angela Carter; title: "Secret Observations of the Goat-Girl" (1988), Joyce Carol Oates; title: "Blood Disease" (1988), Patrick McGrath; title: "If You Touched My Heart" (1991), Isabel Allende.