BUILDING on the weird tales of Hoffmann and Poe, FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN is one of horror and fantasy literature's best hidden secrets. His astonishingly original forays into speculative fiction include an army of possessed Christmas dolls, the sudden and short-lived manifestation of an invisible monster, a disappearing room possessed by cannibal spirits, a murderous scientist's discovery of a microscopic woman in a drop of water, a child's symbiotic relationship to a grave, and a haunted gallows-tree. BEFORE succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, GUY DE MAUPASSANT established a reputation as France's preeminent short story writer, an artist whose cynical and macabre visions paralleled those of Hoffmann and Poe, and directly influenced those of Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and H.P. Lovecraft. His stories are nightmarescapes of psychopathy, corruption, and decadence, featuring a serial-killer judge, a maddening episode of cabin fever (which influenced The Shinning), a gruesome discovery during a night on the river, the inexplicable exodus of a man's walking furniture, the famous invisible vampire, the Horla, werewolves, haunted rooms, neglected ghosts, and vivid affairs of necrophilia. This unique and unrivalled edition of their best weird tales, fantasies, and mysteries includes critical introductions to each story, contextual information, and chilling illustrations that breathe life into their Gothic visions and bizarre fantasias.
This unique and unrivalled edition of de Maupassant's best weird tales, fantasies, and mysteries includes critical introductions to each story, contextual information, and chilling illustrations that breathe life into his Gothic visions and ...
... Mark Twain, Pliny the Younger, Margaret Oliphant, Helena Blavatsky, Fergus Hume, Florence Marryat, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, ... Anderson thought it sounded like the last words of the Psalter, 'omnis spiritus laudet Dominum,' but he ...
... Pliny the Younger, Margaret Oliphant, Helena Blavatsky, Fergus Hume, Florence Marryat, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, ... Anderson thought it sounded like the last words of the Psalter, 'omnis spiritus laudet Dominum,' but he could not ...
... Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Robert W. Chambers, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas De Quincey, William Makepeace Thackeray, ... For, notwithstanding Marion's being so much Barnett's junior, her attitude towards him had a decided suggestion of ...
... Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Robert W. Chambers, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas De Quincey, William Makepeace Thackeray, ... For, notwithstanding Marion's being so much Barnett's junior, her attitude towards him had a decided suggestion of ...
Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self. Ohio State UP, 2007. Jordan, Jane, and Andrew King, editors. Ouida and Victorian Popular Culture. Ashgate, 2013. King, Andrew. “Impure Researches, or Literature, ...
record of terrors suffered to a terrifying confession of horrors committed. These diaries have been integral to revealing that girls are made of other ingredients than sugar and spice. however, no matter how transgressive their ...
Roy S. Porter, The Enlightenment, 2nd edition, Studies in European History (New York: Palgrave, 200¡), ¡¡. 29. James Schmidt, “What Enlightenment Project?” Political Theory 28, no. 6 (December 2000): 737. 30. Porter, The Enlightenment ...
Gender and Form in Alcott's Confidence Stories.” In American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Julie Brown, 45–59. New York: Garland. Stern, Madeline. 1995. Introduction to Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: ...
H.P. Lovecraft's essay on Supernatural Horror in Literature is published here together with a showcase of the fiction which Lovecraft recommends.