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One
of the most commonly asked questions is what are the best books
about Gothic Literature. Below are listed just a few, but the best
and most fundamental are unfortunately out of print and include
Devendra Varma's The Gothic Flame, Montague Summers' The
Gothic Quest and Edith Birkhead's Tales of Terror.
Recommended
Reading: Critical Titles
The Literature of Terror, Volume One - The Gothic Tradition
Gothic
Horror : A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond
Gothic
America
Gothic
Readings : The First Wave, 1764-1840
The
Return of the Repressed : Gothic Horror from the Castle of Otranto
to Alien
Gothic
: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin
Gothic
(The New Critical Idiom)
Modern
Gothic : A Reader
Gothic
Documents : A Sourcebook 1700-1820
Art
of Darkness : A Poetics of Gothic
Recommended
Reading: Gothic Novels
The
Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
The
Castle of Otranto, Vathek, the Vampyre
The
Monk : A Romance (Penguin Classics)- Mathew Lewis
The
Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classic)- Ann Radcliffe
The
Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents - Ann
Radcliffe
Northanger
Abbey (Penguin Classics)- Jane Austen
Dracula
(Penguin Classics)- Bram Stoker
Melmoth
the Wanderer (Penguin Classics) - Charles Maturin
Frankenstein:
the original 1818 text - Mary Shelley
Uncle
Silas - Le Fanu
Recommended
Reading: Gothic Chapbooks
Information
on Gothic chapbooks, bluebooks and many trade authors is still
vary sparse and critically bias. Below is a list of suggested
readings for greater contextualisation of the
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Anglo, Michael, Penny
Dreadfuls and Other Victorian Horrors (London: Jupiter
Books Limited, 1977).
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Dudek, Louis, Literature
and the Press: A History of Printing, Printed Media, and Their
relation to Literature (Toronto: The Ryerson Press and
Contact Press, 1960).
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Frank, Frederick S. The
First Gothics: A Critical Guide to the English Gothic Novel
(London: Garland Publishing, Inc.,1987).
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-------, 'Gothic Gold: The
Sadleir-Black Gothic Collection' Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 26, pp. 287-313.
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Haining, Peter, ed., Great
Tales of Terror From Europe and America: Gothic Stories of
Horror & Romance, 1765-1840. Volume Two. (London:
Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1972).
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------, Tales from Gothic
Bluebooks (Chislehurst: The Gothic Society, 1978).
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Mayo, Robert D, The
English Novel in the Magazines 1740-1815 (London: Oxford
University Press, 1962).
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------, 'Gothic Romance in
the Magazines', Publications of the Modern Language
Association, LXV (1950), pp. 762-789.
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-------, 'How Long was the
Gothic in Vogue', Modern Language Notes, LVIII (1943),
pp. 58-64.
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-------,'The Gothic Short
Story in the Magazine', Modern Language Review, XXXVII
(1942), pp. 448-454.
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Pitcher, E. W., 'Changes in
Short Fiction in Britain 1785-1810: Philosophic Tales, Gothic
Tales, and Fragments and Visions', Studies in Short Fiction,
13:3 (1976: Summer), pp. 331-354.
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Potter, Franz, The
History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835 (London: Palgrave,
2005).
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-------,Writing
for the Spectre of Poverty: Exhuming Sarah Wilkinson's
Bluebooks and Novels, Cardiff Corvey Website Reading
the Romantic Text: Issue 6 December 2003.
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Shepard, Leslie, The
History of Street Literature (Newton Abbot: David &
Charles, 1973).
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Summers, Montague, A
Gothic Bibliography (New York: Russell & Russell,
1964).
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-------, A Gothic Quest:
A History of the Gothic Novel (London: Fortune Press,
1938; Rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1968).
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Varma Devendra, The
Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge (Washington DC:
Consortium Press, 1972).
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-------, The Gothic Flame
(New York: Russell & Russell, 1966; Rpt. London: A.
Barker, 1957)
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