Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein by William Beckford, Horace Walpole, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Matthew Gregory Lewis

Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein

William Beckford, Horace Walpole, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Matthew Gregory Lewis

624 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark mysterious slow-paced

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Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and g...

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