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A review by articsunflower
Gothic Short Stories by Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Richard Barham Middleton, M.R. James, E.F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, David Blair, Ralph Adams Cram, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, David Stuart Davies, Elizabeth Gaskell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, S. Carleton, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathan Drake, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Robert Maturin
3.0
I was definitely expecting other kind of stories.
The first ones were quite hard to get through, mainly because their writing was really complex.
I still really loved a few stories, but overall I was disappointed.
(Out of 5)
Sir Bertrand: A Fragment - 2.5
Captive of the Banditti - 2.5
Extracts from Gosschen’s Diary: No.1 - 4
The Parricide’s Tale - 4
The Spectre Bride - 2
The Tapestried Chamber - 3
Berenice - 3.5
A Madman’s Manuscript - 4
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter - 4.5
Ethan Brand - 1
The Old Nurse’s Story - 4.5
The Body Snatcher - 3.5
The Yellow Wallpaper - 5
The Death of Halpin Frayser - 2
Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook - 3
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince - 3.5
The Lame Priest - 4
Luella Miller - 4.5
The Bird in the Garden - 2
The Room in the Tower - 4.5
The first ones were quite hard to get through, mainly because their writing was really complex.
I still really loved a few stories, but overall I was disappointed.
(Out of 5)
Sir Bertrand: A Fragment - 2.5
Captive of the Banditti - 2.5
Extracts from Gosschen’s Diary: No.1 - 4
The Parricide’s Tale - 4
The Spectre Bride - 2
The Tapestried Chamber - 3
Berenice - 3.5
A Madman’s Manuscript - 4
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter - 4.5
Ethan Brand - 1
The Old Nurse’s Story - 4.5
The Body Snatcher - 3.5
The Yellow Wallpaper - 5
The Death of Halpin Frayser - 2
Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook - 3
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince - 3.5
The Lame Priest - 4
Luella Miller - 4.5
The Bird in the Garden - 2
The Room in the Tower - 4.5