The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
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Part 1 Beginnings: "Sir Bertrand - A Fragment" (1773), Anna Laetitia Aiken "The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791), Richard Cumberland "The Friar's Tale" (1792), Anonymous "Raymond - A Fragment (1799), "Juvenis" "The Parricide Punished" (1799), Anonymous "The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin" (1801), Anonymous "The Vindictive Monk, or The Fatal Ring" (1802), Isaac Crookenden. Part 2 The 19th century: "The Astrologer's Prediction or the Maniac's Fate" (1826), Anonymous "Andreas Vesalius the Anatomist" (1833), Petrus Borel "Lady Eltringham or The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross" (1836), J. Wadham "[The Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)" (1839), Edgar Allan Poe "A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" (1839), Sheridan Le Fanu "[Rappacini's Daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W)" (1844), Nathaniel Hawthorne "Selina Sedilia" (1865), Bret Harte "Jean-Ah Poquelin" (1875), George Washington Cable "Olalla" (1885), Robert Louis Stevenson "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1891), Thomas Hardy "Bloody Blanche" (1892), Marcel Schwob "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892), Charlotte Perkins Stetson "[The Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W)" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle "Hurst of Hurstcote" (1893), E. Nesbit. Part 3 The 20th century: "A Vine on the House" (1905), Ambrose Bierce "Jordan's End" (1923), Ellen Glasgow "The Outsider" (1926), H.P. Lovecraft "[A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)" (1930), William Faulkner "A Rendezvous in Averoigne" (1931), Clark Ashton Smith "The Monkey" (1934), Isak Dinesen "Miss De Mannering of Asham" (1935), F.M. Mayor "The Vampire of Kaldenstein" (1938), Frederick Cowles "Clytie" (1941), Eudora Welty "Sardonicus" (1961), Ray Russell "The Bloody Countess" (1968), Alejandra Pizarnik "The Gospel According to Mark" (1970), Jorge Luis Borges "The Lady of the House of Love" (1979), Angela Carter "Secret Observations of the Goat-Girl" (1988), Joyce Carol Oates "Blood Disease" (1988), Patrick McGrath "If You Touched My Heart" (1991), Isabel Allende.
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Bret Harte
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Marcel Schwob
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Frederick Ignatius Cowles
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Isak Dinesen
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John Wadham
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Edith Nesbit
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Thomas Hardy
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Ambrose Bierce
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William Faulkner
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H.P. Lovecraft
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Isabel Allende
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Richard Cumberland
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Isaac Crookenden
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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F.M. Mayor
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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George Washington Cable
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Ellen Glasgow
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Alejandra Pizarnik
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Eudora Welty
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Petrus Borel
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Sheridan Le Fanu
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Chris Baldick
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Ray Russell
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Juvenis.
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Patrick McGrath
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Angela Carter
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Anonymous
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Clark Ashton Smith
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Anna Laetitia Aiken
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