Into Eternal Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition (eBook)

Novels, Tales and Poems: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Tell-Tale Heart, Sweeney Todd…

Charles Dickens, Friedrich Schiller, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Guy Boothby, Jane Austen, Mayne Reid, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Hugh Benson, Horace Walpole, Frederick Marryat, Thomas Love Peacock, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Robert Browning, Walter Hubbell, Marie orelli, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, William Blake, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Keats, Richard Marsh, Clara Reeve, Charles Robert Maturin, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, W. W. Jacobs, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, E. T. A. Hoffmann, George W. M. Reynolds, William Thomas Beckford, Christina Rossetti, Tobias Smollett, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian (Autoren)

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2023
18745 Seiten
Good Press (Verlag)
859-654768419-0 (EAN)

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Into Eternal Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition invites readers into a labyrinth of tales where shadows stretch and the uncanny thrive. This collection presents an impressive array of stories that encapsulate the Gothic tradition, offering a myriad of haunting themes, from the spectral echoes of lost loves to the crumbling vestiges of sanity within haunted manors. Each piece, whether steeped in the sublime terror of Shelley or the ironic wit of Wilde, adds a layer to the multifaceted tapestry of human fear and fascination with the macabre. The anthology achieves a balance between the psychological intricacies of Poe's eerie landscapes and the ethereal visions of Coleridge, creating a potent blend of dread and beauty. The contributors to this anthology form a conglomeration of literary titans whose collective works have shaped Gothic literature. Spanning the Romantic era to the fin de si√®cle, the authors, from the Bront√´s to James, offer diverse perspectives that enhance thematic exploration of moral ambiguity and human frailty. Enriching the Gothic tableau are the continental influences of authors like Hugo and Gogol, whose stories reflect the interplay between Enlightenment rationality and Gothic emotion. This assembly underscores the genre'Äôs evolution and continuing resonance through its narrative richness and thematic relevance. Readers of Into Eternal Darkness are presented with a rare opportunity to engage with the profound breadth of Gothic literature contained within a single volume. It serves as an essential guide to understanding the enduring appeal of Gothic narratives and their impact on literary history. The anthology not only promises an educational journey through shadowed corridors of creativity but also fosters a dialogue between the varied authors' works, making it a vital resource for students of literature and lovers of the Gothic genre alike.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.12.2023
• Übersetzer: C. J. Hogarth, Samuel Henley, Isabel F. Hapgood
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: 18th-century societal anxieties • Black Castle • Charles Dickens • classic authors • classic horror influences • Classic Literature • Cormac McCarthy • cultural gothic storytelling • Daphne du Maurier • dark and mysterious novels • gothic classics • Halloween • historical gothic evolution • literary classics • literary fiction • macabre suspense anthology • Psychological gothic themes • romantic supernatural tales • shirley jackson • Stephen King • supernatural narrative collection • The Night of the Moths • The Woman in Black • Varney the Vampire • Victorian era horror • Victorian Gothic • Victorian literary classics • Victorian Literature • Vintage Literature • westworld