The Cold Embrace and Other Ghost Stories
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Ashcroft, B.C. : Ash-Tree Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Cold Embrace and Other Classic Ghost Stories
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Frontlist Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781843500933
Book Description
A chilling collection of stories from the masters of supernatural fiction, written during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at the height of the genre's popularity. These fifteen tales introduce a variety of ghosts: some warning, some seeking retribution and some malevolent, but all disturbing and offering a view into a world filled with darkness and terror that lies at the boundary between the living and the dead.
The Cold Embrace and Other Stories
Author : M. E. Braddon
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409900566
Book Description
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) was a British Victorian era popular novelist. She was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is her first novel, Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well. The novel has been in print ever since, and has been dramatised and filmed several times. She also founded Belgravia Magazine (1866), which presented readers with serialized sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history, science. The magazine was accompanied by lavish illustrations and offered readers a source of literature at an affordable cost. She also edited Temple Bar Magazine. Her legacy is tied to the Sensation Fiction of the 1860s. Her other works include: The Octoroon (1861), The Black Band (1861), Aurora Floyd (1863), Eleanor's Victory (1863), Henry Dunbar: A Novel (1864), The Doctor's Wife (1864), Birds of Prey (1867), Charlotte's Inheritance (1868), Fenton's Quest (1871), Milly Darrell and Other Tales (1873), The Golden Calf (1883), Phantom Fortune (1883) and London Pride (1896).
The Shadow in the Corner
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1528766156
Book Description
The Shadow in the Corner' is a gothic short story, written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and first published in 1879. It tells the story of Michael Bascom, a reclusive scientist, who lives in an old mansion called Wildheath Grange. His man servant informs him that they need a girl to help his wife around the house. An orphan girl takes the role, but informs Bascom that she is very uncomfortable with her lodgings. She says she sees a mysterious shadow in her room at night. The house is rumoured to be haunted, but the scientist doesn't believe her, that is, until he experiences it himself. To compliment the republication of this work, a specially commissioned new introductory biography of the author has been added.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Author : Anne-Marie Beller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786490772
Book Description
An important figure in the development of crime fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) wrote more than 80 novels, numerous plays, poems, essays and short stories, and edited two magazines during her 55-year literary career. Her bestselling Lady Audley's Secret secured her reputation as a leading "sensation novelist." Though critics called her work immoral, Braddon's novels influenced the detective fiction of the late Victorian period. With entries on all her published writing, characters, relationships and influences, and themes and contexts, as well as numerous illustrations, a career chronology, and a chronological and alphabetical listing of all of her works, this companion to Braddon's mystery fiction is the definitive reference on this provocative but overlooked writer.
The Cold Embrace
Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486805050
Book Description
Nineteen short stories cover nearly a century of speculative fiction by women authors, including Mary Shelley, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, E. Nesbit, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, May Sinclair, and others.
British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860–1930
Author : Victoria Margree
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030271420
Book Description
This book explores women’s short supernatural fiction between the emergence of first wave feminism and the post-suffrage period, arguing that while literary ghosts enabled an interrogation of women’s changing circumstances, ghosts could have both subversive and conservative implications. Haunted house narratives by Charlotte Riddell and Margaret Oliphant become troubled by uncanny reminders of the origins of middle-class wealth in domestic and foreign exploitation. Corpse-like revenants are deployed in Female Gothic tales by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Edith Nesbit to interrogate masculine aestheticisation of female death. In the culturally-hybrid supernaturalism of Alice Perrin, the ‘Marriage Question’ migrates to colonial India, and psychoanalytically-informed stories by May Sinclair, Eleanor Scott and Violet Hunt explore just how far gender relations have really progressed in the post-First World War period. Study of the woman’s short story productively problematises literary histories about the “golden age” of the ghost story, and about the transition from Victorianism to modernism.
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141943815
Book Description
This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernatural Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret. Michael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton
Ghost Stories by British and American Women
Author : Lynette Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317943538
Book Description
Originally published in 1998 and covering a tradition ignored by most critics, this bibliography assembles and documents a large body of supernatural fiction written by women in English from the end of the 18th century to the present. These stories, the work of women whose literary reputations, personal histories, and bodies of work vary widely, challenge the narrow way in which supernatural literature has traditionally been regarded: they indicate a much richer and more complex set of literary responses to the supernatural than has been hitherto acknowledged. The writers included range from Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic novelists to Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Gilman, and Edith Wharton to such modern writers as Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and A.S. Byatt. The volume will be of interest to literary and cultural historians and of particular importance to women's studies scholars.
What Do I Read Next? Volume 2 2003
Author : Gale Group
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780787661823
Book Description
This volume contains descriptions of 1,245 books in nine fiction genres, including author or editor's name, publication information, story type, major characters, setting, plot summary, and more.
