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Horror stories : classic tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (engelsk)


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The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horrors, colonial horror, and tales of the uncanny and precognition. This anthology brings together twenty-nine of the greatest horror stories of the period, from 1816 to 1912, from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions.

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The sandman(E. T. A. Hoffmann)

The man in the bell(William Maginn)

George Dobson's expedition to hell(James Hogg)

La grande bretêche(Honré de Balzac)

Berenice- a tale(Edgar Allan Poe)

Strange event in the life of Schalken the painter(Sheridan Le Fanu)

The birth-mark(Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The Tartarus of Maids(Herman Melville)

What was it?(Fitz-James O'Brien)

No. 1 Branch line: The signal-man(Charles Dickens)


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