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Horror Stories
Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
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).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

  • HONORÉ DE BALZAC, La Grande Bretêche

  • 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

  • ÉMILE ZOLA, The Death of Olivier Bécaille

  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 560
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199685448
ISBN-10: 0199685444
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jones, Darryl
Redaktion: Jones, Darryl
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 195 x 129 x 35 mm
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.10.2018
Gewicht: 0,386 kg
preigu-id: 111672950
Über den Autor
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).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

  • HONORÉ DE BALZAC, La Grande Bretêche

  • 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

  • ÉMILE ZOLA, The Death of Olivier Bécaille

  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 560
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199685448
ISBN-10: 0199685444
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jones, Darryl
Redaktion: Jones, Darryl
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 195 x 129 x 35 mm
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.10.2018
Gewicht: 0,386 kg
preigu-id: 111672950
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