horror tales, english

Presents the final 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's novel about a young medical student who creates a living being and suffers violent consequences for his actions; and provides historical and biographical background, contextual documents, and overviews of psychoanalytic, feminist, gender, Marxist, and cultural criticism using "Frankenstein" as a critical model.

Includes offerings from Joan Lowery Nixon, Vivien Alcock, Robert Westall, and Joan Aiken.

An illustrated collection of eight stories of terror by well-known American and British authors.

Offers an anthology of eighteen classic horror tales.

Provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on the twelve most significant writers of horror fiction: Robert Aickman, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, Walter de la Mare, L.P. Hartley, William Hope Hodgson, Shirley Jackson, M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Richard Matheson.

Focuses on several major authors of horror fiction: Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Brockden Brown, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Robert Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Horace Walpole and Mary Shelley.

A collection of short stories by English author W.W. Jacobs that contain humor, horror, and elements of the supernatural.