They’re gonna can me at the university if they find out about this. With an introductory essay by Mario Praz. So sometimes you build something, and it gets away. Three Gothic novels The castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole Vathek by William Beckford Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It’s alive! I’d better beat it over the head repeatedly with a fire extinguisher. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was as in all Gothic novels, horror is the Just did a bit-torrent-style grave robbery. By Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Mary Shelley, Peter Fairclough (Editor).
Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto Vathek Frankenstein (Paperback). This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings.
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