Edith Birkhead traces English supernatural fiction from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer in 1820 and beyond. Chapters treat Ann Radcliffe’s novels of suspense, Lewis and Maturin, Beckford’s oriental tale, Godwin, the satirists of the Gothic, Scott, the short tale of terror and the American masters Hawthorne and Poe.
An early and still readable survey of the Gothic novel, useful to students and to anyone who loves the old haunted-castle books. Download the free EPUB.