gothic novels

An introduction to Gothic literature, including a chronology, excerpts and criticism of key texts, and a discussion of how the genre has developed in different national contexts and forms, including novels, poems, and films.

Contains Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" about a scientist who creates a monster from various dead bodies and H. G. Wells's "The Island of Doctor Moreau" in which victims of a shipwreck in the Pacific discover an island ruled by an ominous scientist who performs ghastly genetic experiments which change animals into grotesque, partially human creatures, and includes a selection of essays on themes in the two novels.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

When Molloy and her friends seek shelter from a storm, they get trapped inside Nightmare Hall with a crazed killer.

Lissa's artist father doesn't live her. Her Mother feel that her father can do no wrong, until the day he tries to kill Lissa.

A retelling of the classic novel "Wuthering Heights" in which Heathcliff is reimagined as a half-vampire who protects Catherine by fighting bloodsuckers that roam the moors, and Catherine is forced to choose between the wealthy Edgar Linton and the dangerous Heathcliff.

A critical appraisal of Rice's novels, placing her in the tradition of the genre, and her examination of evil, death, sexuality, and the unconscious.

Young Catherine Morland's entry into nineteenth-century English society is attended by the collapse of many romantic illusions.

Collection of Gothic fiction from the late eighteenth century to the present day from Le Fanu and Hawthorne to Isabel Allende.