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Ladies of Gothic Horror (A Collection of Classic Stories)

Author : Mitzi Szereto
Publisher : Midnight Rain Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ladies of Gothic Horror (A Collection of Classic Stories) written by Mitzi Szereto and published by Midnight Rain Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic gothic horror stories from the literary mistresses of the past! Many of gothic horror’s spookiest tales have come from the pens of women. Yet a substantial number of these women were overshadowed by their male contemporaries, especially with regard to the classics. Ladies of Gothic Horror (A Collection of Classic Stories) redresses this imbalance by bringing together a selection of gothic stories from the past written exclusively by women. Carefully edited and compiled by author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto, Ladies of Gothic Horror offers readers plenty of good old-fashioned chills and thrills. Whether you’re a devotee of the genre, a literature lover, an academic or a student, this volume of short fiction is sure to please. The biographies accompanying each story will show that these women were anything but typical for their time. Includes seventeen stories from authors Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edith Wharton, Marjorie Bowen, Gertrude Atherton, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elia W. Peattie and many more. "Ladies of Gothic Horror (A Collection of Classic Stories) is a must-read for anyone who loves the horror, mystery, science fiction, or paranormal genres." - Long and Short Reviews "An inspiring collection, to be enjoyed in its own right, preferably by candlelight while sat in your favourite chair…" - ScreamFix "You’ll find some damn fine fiction in this collection and some equally impressive true stories." - Get On My Damn Level book reviews "We have stories with ghosts, some malevolent, some seeking vengeance, and some simply waiting for a wrong to be corrected…. [Including] a thoughtful look into the time period, and the challenges that these women had faced in getting published, let alone in living their everyday lives." - Girl Who Reads

The Woman in Black

Author : Susan Hill
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099511649
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Woman in Black written by Susan Hill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he glimpses a pale young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black - and her terrible purpose.

Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 4

Author : Michael Aronovitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 4 written by Michael Aronovitz and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme is Gothic-- the horror of Gothic romance. Throughout the mid-century, paperback Gothic romance books dominated the shelves, always featuring a woman running away from a house. (Go ahead, Google "women running from houses.") Gothic romances tended to tell stories of women coming into conflict with old families, old houses and old traditions. So we've asked a bevy of best-selling writers to celebrate the movement with their own horrific takes on gothic. Run from the house with us! In Churl Yo offers a Bradburyesque sci-fi take on the Gothic, Alethea Kontis also chooses sci-fi in her tale of a futuristic medical procedure gone awry, John Ohno brings a classic governess-arrives-and-things-go-bad story, Jim Towns sets his story in 1972 with his movie-world horror tale, Amanda DeWees has a Gothic tale with an ingenious and tech-savvy female, Jeremiah Dylan Cook gives us a mysterious mansion-and sexy maybe-ghost, Leanna Renee Hieber brings us a ballad-like ghost origin story, Rob Nisbet makes a Lovecraft story out of Lovecraft himself, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam comes to us with a ghost story of a house with its own ideas, Jason Henderson brings the beginning of a serialized story about an expedition into the fabled and haunted House of Usher, Charles R. Rutledge returns with a Carter Decamp psychic mystery, Henry Herz turns to folklore with his tale of a supernatural being wreaking vengeance on Scottish shores, Tony Jones spins us in the direction of violent, supernatural creatures with a taste for the nightlife, Michael Aronovitz weaves a tale about a person coming to terms with what it takes to escape an attic, Sam Knight perfectly evokes the smells and textures of life at an orchard, and Scott Pearson returns us once again to the contemporary era with his feminist commentary on the Modern Gothic.

Gothic for Girls

Author : Julia Round
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496824474
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Gothic for Girls written by Julia Round and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Broken Frontier Award for Best Book on Comics Today fans still remember and love the British girls’ comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural history and detailed discussion of the comic, preserving both the inception and development of this important publication as well as its stories. Misty ran for 101 issues as a stand-alone publication between 1978 and 1980 and then four more years as part of Tammy. It was a hugely successful anthology comic containing one-shot and serialized stories of supernatural horror and fantasy aimed at girls and young women and featuring work by writers and artists who dominated British comics such as Pat Mills, Malcolm Shaw, and John Armstrong, as well as celebrated European artists. To this day, Misty remains notable for its daring and sophisticated stories, strong female characters, innovative page layouts, and big visuals. In the first book on this topic, Round closely analyzes Misty’s content, including its creation and production, its cultural and historical context, key influences, and the comic itself. Largely based on Round’s own archival research, the study also draws on interviews with many of the key creators involved in this comic, including Pat Mills, Wilf Prigmore, and its art editorial team Jack Cunningham and Ted Andrews, who have never previously spoken about their work. Richly illustrated with previously unpublished photos, scripts, and letters, this book uses Misty as a lens to explore the use of Gothic themes and symbols in girls’ comics and other media. It surveys existing work on childhood and Gothic and offers a working definition of Gothic for Girls, a subgenre which challenges and instructs readers in a number of ways.

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
ISBN 13 : 9780199561537
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (615 download)

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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.

African American Gothic

Author : M. Wester
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137315288
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book African American Gothic written by M. Wester and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester reveals the myriad ways writers manipulate the genre to critique the gothic's traditional racial ideologies and the mechanisms that were appropriated and re-articulated as a useful vehicle for the enunciation of the peculiar terrors and complexities of black existence in America. Re-reading major African American literary texts such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Of One Blood, Cane, Invisible Man, and Corregidora African American Gothic investigates texts from each major era in African American Culture to show how the gothic has consistently circulated throughout the African American literary canon.

Late Victorian Gothic Tales

Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199538875
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Late Victorian Gothic Tales written by Roger Luckhurst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantastic possibilities into his head...' The Victorian fin de siècle: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships. This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers

Author : Mitzi Szereto
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642500739
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers written by Mitzi Szereto and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel around the world and inside the minds of monsters in this true crime anthology featuring sixteen astonishing serial killer exposés. Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the twentieth century—but such assumptions are far from the truth. Serial killers have been around for a long time and can be found in every corner of the globe―and they’re not just limited to the male gender, either. Some of these predators have been caught and brought to justice whereas others have never been found, let alone identified. Serial killers can be anywhere. And scarier still, they can be anyone. Edited by acclaimed author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto, The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers reveals all-new accounts of true-crime serial killers from the contemporary to the historic. The international list of contributors includes award-winning crime writers, true-crime podcasters, journalists, and experts in the dark crimes field such as Martin Edwards, Lee Mellor, Danuta Kot, Craig Pittman, Richard O. Jones, Marcie Rendon, Mike Browne, and Vicki Hendricks. This book will leave you wondering if it’s ever really possible to know who’s behind the mask you’re allowed to see. Perfect for readers of true crime books such as I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Mindhunter, The Devil in the White City, or Sons of Cain. “An engrossing and multi-faceted anthology for a new era of true crime writing.” ―Piper Weiss, author of You All Grow Up and Leave Me

The Romance of the Forest

Author : Ann Ward Radcliffe
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 143447156X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Romance of the Forest written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Romance of the Forest' evokes a world drenched in both horror and natural splendor, beset with abductions and imprisonments, and centered upon the frequently terrified but still resourceful and determined heroine Adeline.

Classic Tales of Horror

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788289511
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book Classic Tales of Horror written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of chilling horror stories from the maestro of suspense contains nearly 20 of Edgar Allan Poe's best known stories"--Amazon.com

Gothic Short Stories Collection

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481941990
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Short Stories Collection written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Short Stories Collection is an anthology of classic supernatural and Gothic horror fiction. Sir Bertrand: A Fragment - Anna Letitia Aiken The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott A Madman's Manuscript - Charles Dickens Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter - J.S. le Fanu The Unpardonable Sin - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Old Nurse's Story - Elizabeth Gaskell The Death of Halpin Frayser - Ambrose Bierce Canon Alberic's Scrapbook - Montague Rhodes James The Lame Priest - Susan Morrow Jones (S. Carleton) The Body-Snatcher - Robert Louis Stevenson No. 252 Rue M. le Prince - Ralph Adams Cram The Bird in the Garden - Richard Middleton The Room in the Tower - E.F. Benson Luella Miller - Mary Wilkins Freeman The Spectre Bride - William Harrison Ainsworth The Occupant of the Room - Algernon Blackwood The Painter's Bargain - William Makepeace Thackeray The Monkey's Paw - W. W. Jacobs The Street - H. P. Lovecraft Enjoy!

The Midnight Inkwell

Author : Various
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528798856
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Midnight Inkwell written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting collection of classic short stories crafted by the visionary minds of thirteen pioneering women. Each tale in this carefully curated volume unveils the deliciously dark imaginations of classic literature's most beloved female authors. From Louisa May Alcott to Edith Nesbit to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the gothic horror fiction of thirteen literary icons is featured in this macabre anthology. Unearth hidden horrors, psychological terrors, and evocative suspense in the chilling beauty of these writers' prose. This volume is part of the Mothers of the Macabre series, celebrating the gothic horror masterpieces of pioneering women writers who played a pivotal role in shaping and advancing the genre. These short stories have withstood the test of time, challenging societal norms and subverting expectations, and they continue to captivate today's reader with their enduring power to provoke horror.

Late Victorian Gothic Tales

Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191623121
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Late Victorian Gothic Tales written by Roger Luckhurst and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantastic possibilities into his head...' The Victorian fin de siècle: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships. This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Classic Ghost Stories

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Classic Ghost Stories written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers ghost stories that have long been considered classical: stories that have served as prototypes for other work, and stories that are in themselves uniquely great.

Ravens & Roses

Author : Cassandra L. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737104919
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Ravens & Roses written by Cassandra L. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman haunted by guilt. A man obsessed with the obscene. A vampire consumed by love. Ravens & Roses is a unique collection of Gothic stories penned by a diverse group of women authors. Pulling inspiration from some of the greatest Gothic works of our time, these writers have created eleven poignantly beautiful tales of love, tragedy, and the woman's experience. Featuring stories written by Kristin Cleaveland, Judith Crow, Carla Eliot, A.L. Garcia, Tara Jazdzewski, Rebecca Jones-Howe, Liz M. Kamp, Catherine McCarthy, Olivia Claire Louise Newman, Alexa Rose, and Helen Whistberry. Also featuring poetry by The Dark Poet Society of Quill & Crow Publishing House. Edited by Cassandra L. Thompson.

American Gothic Tales

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452274893
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book American Gothic Tales written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gothic Feminism

Author : Diane Long Hoeveler
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271040971
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Feminism written by Diane Long Hoeveler and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of bourgeois female sensibility. Building on her earlier work in Romantic Androgyny, Diane Long Hoeveler now examines the Gothic novels of Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Dacre Byrne, Mary Shelley, and the Bront&ës to show how these writers helped define femininity for women of the British middle class. Hoeveler argues that a female-created literary ideology, now known as &"victim feminism,&" arose as the Gothic novel helped create a new social role of professional victim for women adjusting to the new bourgeois order. These novels were thinly disguised efforts at propagandizing a new form of conduct for women, teaching that &"professional femininity&"&—a cultivated pose of wise passiveness and controlled emotions&—best prepared them for social survival. She examines how representations of both men and women in these novels moved from the purely psychosexual into social and political representations, and how these writers constructed a series of ideologies that would allow their female characters&—and readers&—fictitious mastery over an oppressive social and political system. Gothic Feminism takes a neo-feminist approach to these women's writings, treating them not as sacred texts but as thesis-driven works that attempted to instruct women in a series of strategic poses. It offers both a new understanding of the genre and a wholly new interpretation of feminism as a literary ideology.