Gothic Short Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, E.F. Benson, David Stuart Davies, Ralph Adams Cram, M.R. James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Dickens, S. Carleton, Charles Robert Maturin, Walter Scott, David Blair, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathan Drake, Richard Barham Middleton, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, J. Sheridan Le Fanu

272 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

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This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost-and horror-story. Some of ...

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Moods

mysterious 100%
dark 75%
tense 50%
sad 25%

Pace

slow 33%
medium 33%
fast 33%

Plot- or character-driven?

N/A: 100%

Strong character development?

N/A: 100%

Loveable characters?

It's complicated: 50% | N/A: 50%

Diverse cast of characters?

N/A: 50% | No: 50%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

N/A: 100%

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