
The Oxford book of gothic tales
Fantômes et horreur (récits), Fantastique (récits), Anthologies
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Examples of the Gothic genre from its eighteenth-century inception. Each of the thirty-seven selections combines "a fearful sense of inheritance in time with a claustrophobic sense of enclosure in space." Among the most famous is The Fall of the House… of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. Other tales range from the work of the ubiquitous "anonymous" and other American and British practitioners to a modern effort by a Chilean author. Violence