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      Gothic Tales

      by Laura Kranzler
      Published
      Jan 2001
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      Horror Horror
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      Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in 'The Old Nurse's Story' a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors. Whether darkly surreal, such as 'The Poor Clare', where an evil doppelgänger is formed by a woman's bitter curse, or mischievous like 'Curious, if True', a playful reworking of fairy tales, all the stories in this volume form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell's novels, revealing a darker and more unsettling style of writing.

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      Speculative Fiction

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      Horror

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      First Edition Jan 2001 Penguin ISBN13 9780141881874 ISBN10 0141881879
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      Aug 2000 -- Not Selected ISBN10 B002RI95AO
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