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A Tale of Horror: A Study of the Gothic Novel

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Abandoned houses, family curses, the living dead, and sinister doppelgangers—many motifs of modern horror and video games originated in the Gothic novels of the 18th and 19th centuries. In her classic work, English scholar and philologist Edith Birkhead traces the development of the "tale of terror" from the architectural mysticism of Horace Walpole, the intellectual suspense of Anne Radcliffe, and the existential dread of Mary Shelley to the neurotic nightmares of Edgar Allan Poe, linking the literature of terror to popular superstitions, Romanticism, and the crises of European culture. Written in 1921, "A Tale of Terror" is the first comprehensive study of the Gothic novel and a fascinating guide to the world of literary nightmares, demonstrating why plots of ghosts, dungeons, and supernatural intrusions continue to terrify us today.
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