The Queens of Victorian Horror - Rare Tales of Terror from the Pens of Female Authors of the Victorian Period
The Queens of Victorian Horror - Rare Tales of Terror from the Pens of Female Authors of the Victorian Period

Author: Various

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2012-11-08

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1447480589

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Showcasing the literary prowess of the Victorian era's women writers, this collection of short stories features haunting works of gothic horror in a celebration of the macabre. Discover the spine-tingling tales crafted by these visionary women as they explore themes of madness, the occult, ghostly encounters, and the dark recesses of the human psyche. Featuring the work of Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott, and more, each story immerses the reader in a world of chilling gothic beauty. The pioneering women celebrated in this collection challenged patriarchal bounds and societal expectations in these tales of terror. This volume is part of the Mothers of the Macabre series, celebrating the gothic horror masterpieces of pioneering women writers who played a pivotal role in shaping and advancing the genre. Carefully curated, The Queens of Victorian Horror pays homage to the enduring legacy of these female authors, shedding light on their extraordinary contributions to gothic horror literature.

Victorian Tales of Terror
Victorian Tales of Terror

Author: Hugh Lamb

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-13

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781699033074

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The dead man playing a violin, the young doctor tasked with saving a doomed life, the deformed creatures and their mysterious mother, the desperate chase to kill a murderous monster...The Victorian era was a heyday for tales of the supernatural and macabre. Alongside such well known stories as The Signalman, The Monkey's Paw and A Warning to the Curious were hundreds of other, lesser known but equally accomplished, short stories. Victorian Tales of Terror, first published in 1974, brought together 15 long forgotten works of spooky fiction by writers such as Charles Dickens, J. Sheridan le Fanu and Ambrose Bierce. Over the course of 47 years, Hugh Lamb became one of the most celebrated anthologists of lost or forgotten tales of the supernatural and macabre. This new edition of Victorian Tales of Terror, featuring an extra story not found in the original edition, is presented as a commemoration of his life and his work.

Victorian Tales of Terror
Victorian Tales of Terror

Author: Hugh Lamb

Publisher: W H Allen

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Fifteen stories of the macabre and supernatural, involving terrible events in the mansions of the rich and ghastly crimes in the slums of the poor, by nineteenth-century British, American, French, and German writers.

A Bottomless Grave
A Bottomless Grave

Author: Hugh Lamb

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-01-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0486114376

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Twenty-one rare, seldom-anthologized stories include "A Bottomless Grave" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Ship that Saw a Ghost" by Frank Norris, Guy de Maupassant's "The Tomb," other gems of the genre.

Dolly Biters
Dolly Biters

Author: Paul Voodini

Publisher: Next Chapter

Published: 2022-02-12

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13:

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Welcome to the Gothic London of the 1800's. These saucy tales quicken the pulse, thrill the mind and excite parts of the body that other, lesser books fail to reach. Novellas and short stories featured in this sweet confection of blood, sex and gothic melodrama include Holmes of the Baskervilles, Miss Katie Bell - Victorian Vampire, Joan Dark is Lost, and The Vampire Alice Through the Looking Glass. Here, vampires walk the streets and your favorite characters from Victorian literature are twisted until they snap. This book contains adult content and is not recommended for readers under the age of 18.

The Gentlewomen of Evil
The Gentlewomen of Evil

Author: Peter Haining

Publisher: New York : Taplinger Publishing Company

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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Brilliant tales of terror from an unlikely source: Victorian gentlewomen. Ghosts, apparitions and spectres provide an atmosphers of evil and lurking fear.

The Darker Sex
The Darker Sex

Author: Mike Ashley

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0720614384

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Ghosts, precognition, suicide, and the afterlife are all themes in these thrilling stories by Britain and America's greatest Victorian women, proving their talent for creating dark, sensational, and horrifying tales of the supernatural. This anthology showcases some of the best and most representative work by female writers during this period, including Emily Bronte, Mary Braddon, George Eliot, and Edith Nesbit, as well as Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Riddell, Louisa Baldwin, Mary Penn, Violet Quirk, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Editor Mike Ashley provides valuable insight into the authors' lives. Each story still has the ability to shock, frighten, and show how Victorian women perfected and developed the Gothic genre.

Terror by Gaslight
Terror by Gaslight

Author: Hugh Lamb

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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14 stories from America and Europe, as well as Great Britain, written during the 19th century, guaranteed to chill your bones as you read about the evil eye, voodoo, and other aspects of the supernatural. Includes notes on the authors.