Publication: Gothic Short Stories

Publication: Gothic Short StoriesPublication Record # 383589
Editor: David Blair
Date: 2007-10-10
ISBN: 978-1-84022-425-2 [1-84022-425-8]
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Pub. Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Pages: xxviii+244
Format:
tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Notes: Publishing date is from Amazon U.K. Cover is Omnia Vanitas from the "Dutch School". No price listed. In his story notes Blair notes that Extracts from Gosschen's Diary: No. 1 might have been written by John Wilson, who often wrote as Christopher North. In his notes Blair mentions that 'The Spectre Bride' might have been written by William Harrison Ainsworth.

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Anthology Title: Gothic Short Stories • (2002) • anthology by David Blair

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vii • Foreword (Gothic Short Stories) • (2002) • essay by David Blair
viii • Introduction (Gothic Short Stories) • (2002) • essay by David Blair
xxvii • Select Bibliography • (2002) • essay by David Blair
3 • Sir Bertrand: A Fragment • (2002) • short fiction by John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (variant of On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment 1773) [as by Anna Letitia Aikin]
7 • Captive of the Banditti • (1801) • short fiction by Nathan Drake and A. N. Other (variant of Captive of the Banditti: A Terrific Tale Concluded) [as by Nathan Drake and uncredited]
16 • Extracts from Gosschen's Diary: No. 1 • (1881) • short story by John Wilson (19th century) (variant of Extracts from Gosschen's Diary 1818) [as by uncredited]
21 • The Parricide's Tale • (1946) • short story by Charles Maturin [as by Charles Robert Maturin]
32 • The Spectre Bride • (1822) • short story by unknown
40 • The Tapestried Chamber • (1828) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
52 • Berenice • non-genre • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of
Berenice—A Tale^?Berenice-A Tale
1835)
60 • A Madman's Manuscript • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens
68 • Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter • (2002) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. S. Le Fanu]
90 • Ethan Brand • (1874) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of Ethan Brand: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance 1850)
105 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
124 • The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
141 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
156 • The Death of Halpin Frayser • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
170 • Canon Alberic's Scrapbook • (1895) • short story by M. R. James
181 • No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
194 • The Lame Priest • (1901) • short story by S. Carleton
207 • Luella Miller • (1969) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary Wilkins Freeman]
219 • The Bird in the Garden • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton
223 • The Room in the Tower • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
235 • Notes on Authors and Stories (Gothic Short Stories) • (2002) • essay by David Blair

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