Horror Stories
Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson
(Sprache: Englisch)
This anthology brings together 29 of the greatest horror stories from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions through the long 19th century. It ranges widely across diverse sub-genres including the supernatural, psychological and tales of the...
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This anthology brings together 29 of the greatest horror stories from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions through the long 19th century. It ranges widely across diverse sub-genres including the supernatural, psychological and tales of the uncanny, and features established classics as well as little-known works.
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The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horror, colonial horror, and tales of the uncanny and precognition. This anthology brings together twenty-nine of the greatest horror stories of the period, from 1816 to 1912, from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions. It ranges widely across the sub-genres toencompass authors whose terror-inducing powers remain unsurpassed. The book includes stories by some of the best writers of the century - Hoffmann, Poe, Balzac, Dickens, Hawthorne, Melville, and Zola - as well as established genre classics from M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others. It includes rare and little-known pieces by writers such as William Maginn, Francis Marion Crawford, W. F. Harvey, and William Hope Hodgson, and shows the important role played by periodicals in popularizing the horrorstory. Wherever possible, stories are reprinted in their first published form, with background information about their authors and helpful, contextualizing annotation. Darryl Jones's lively introduction discusses horror's literary evolution and its articulation of cultural preoccupations andanxieties. These are stories guaranteed to freeze the blood, revolt the senses, and keep you awake at night: prepare to be terrified!
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Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; Chronology; E.T.A. HOFFMANN, The Sandman; WILLIAM MAGINN, The Man in the Bell; JAMES HOGG, George Dobson's Expedition to Hell; HONORE DE BALZAC, La Grande Breteche; EDGAR ALLAN POE, Berenice; SHERIDAN LE FANU, Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter; NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Birth-Mark; HERMAN MELVILLE, The Tartarus of Maids; FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN, What Was It?; CHARLES DICKENS, No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man; EMILE ZOLA, The Death of Olivier Becaille; RONALD ROSS, The Vivisector Vivisected; ROBERT-LOUIS STEVENSON, The Body-Snatcher; RUDYARD KIPLING, The Mark of the Beast; AMBROSE BIERCE, Chickamauga; CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN,The Yellow Wall Paper; ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Case of Lady Sannox; BRAM STOKER, The Squaw; ROBERT W. CHAMBERS, The Repairer of Reputations; ARTHUR MACHEN, Novel of the White Powder; RICHARD MARSH, The Adventure of Lady Wishaw's Hand; W. W. JACOBS, The Monkey's Paw; MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN, Luella Miller; M. R. JAMES, Count Magnus; FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD, For the Blood is the Life; ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, The Wendigo; W. F. HARVEY, August Heat; E. F. BENSON, The Room in the Tower; WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON, The Derelict; Explanatory Notes
Autoren-Porträt von Darryl Jones
Darryl Jones has taught at Trinity College Dublin since 1994. Prior to this he taught in the University of Lodz, Poland. He has held Visiting Professorships at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Transylvania, and Tongji University, Shanghai. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (Arnold/OUP 2002), It Came From the 1950s!: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties(with Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy, Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and for Oxford World's Classics, M. R. James, Collected Ghost Stories (OUP, 2011, 2013), Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic Tales (2016), and H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (2017) and The Island of Doctor Moreau(2017).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Darryl Jones
- 2018, 560 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben von Jones, Darryl
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199685444
- ISBN-13: 9780199685448
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.11.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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