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M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) Elfriede Jelinek, Die Kinder der Toten (1995) Rikard Jorgovanić, Love upon the Catafalque (1876), Dada (1878) and A Wife and a Lover (1878)
Bradford, N.Y. English teacher Richard Leise, a prolific short story author, is gaining acclaim for his haunting first novel, "Being Dead." This high school English teacher's gothic novel has ...
Gothic literature is strongly associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, marked by harsh laws enforced by torture and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals.
The story follows Rosamond Vivian, a young woman who lives on an English island with her grandfather. She declares, "I often feel as if I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom!"
The story is set in Padua, Italy, in a distant and unspecified past, possibly in the sixteenth century, after the Paduan Botanical Garden had been founded. [1]Giovanni Guasconti, a young student recently arrived from Naples, Southern Italy, to study at the University of Padua, is renting a room in an ancient building that still exhibits the Coat of Arms of the once-great, long since extinct ...
This 1959 gothic novel, which was the inspiration for the terrifying Netflix series of the same name, is considered by many to be the best haunted-house story ever written. Seriously, this tale ...
The book was nominated for a Locus Poll Award in 2005 in the category Best Young Adult Book. [2] The book is An American Library Association (ALA) Best Book for Young Adults, A Kirkus Reviews Editors’ Choice, A Junior Library Guild Selection, A VOYA Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Title, and A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age.
"Lot No. 249" is a Gothic horror short story by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in Harper's Magazine in 1892. The story tells of a University of Oxford athlete named Abercrombie Smith who notices a strange series of events surrounding Edward Bellingham, an Egyptology student who owns many ancient Egyptian artefacts, including a mummy.