Gothic Reading List

  (* means copies are available through the English Department . Titles in bold print are studied by the class as a whole. All others are in the library.)

 

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18th Century

F WAL
Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Oxford, 1717-1797. The castle of Otranto 
Horace
Walpole; with Sir Walter Scott's introduction of 1821 and a new introduction by Marvin Mudrick. New York: Collier Books, [1963].

Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Italian.*

F RAD
Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823 and Dobree, Bonamy, 1891. The mysteries of Udolpho /Ann Radcliffe; edited with an introd. by Bonamy Dobree ;  explanatory notes by Frederick Garber. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, [1980, 1970].  

19th Century  [18th Century  20th Century]

F AUS
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 and Butler, Marilyn. Northanger Abbey/ edited with an   introduction by Marilyn Butler. London; New York: Penguin Books, [1995].

F BRO
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855 and Dunn, Richard J., 1938. Jane Eyre:
authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism / Charlotte Brontė ; edited by  Richard J. Dunn. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, [1987].  

F BRO 
Bronte, Emily Jane, 1818-1848 and Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848,  Wuthering Heights : authoritative text, backgrounds,
criticism / Emily Brontė; edited by William M. Sale, Jr. and Richard J. Dunn. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, [1990].

F COL
Collins, Wilkie. The woman in white. New York: Knopf, [1991].

F DIC
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations / Charles Dickens. Toronto; New York: Bantam Books, [1981].  

F DOY
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. The Hound of the Baskervilles / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New York, NY: Signet, [1986].    

F HUG
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. The hunchback of Notre Dame / by Victor Hugo. New York:  Grossett, [1941?].   

F JAM
James, Henry, 1843-1916. The turn of the screw: an authoritative text,
background and sources, essays in criticism/ edited by Robert Kimbrough.  Norton, [1966].*

F LER
Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927 and Castaigne, Andre, illustrator. The phantom of the
opera/ Gaston Leroux ; illustrated by Andre Castaigne, introduction by Richard Dalby. New York: Mysterious Press, [1988, 1987].    

F SHE
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus   : the 1818 text in three volumes / by Mary Shelley ; illustrated by Barry Moser and with an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. Berkeley: University of California Press, [1994, 1984].* 

F STE
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis   Stevenson. New York: Signet, [1987].*  

F STO
Stoker, Bram and Ellmann, Maud. Dracula. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [1996].  

F WIL
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde. Reprint.London, England: Everyman, [1996].    

20th Century     [18th Century    19th Century ]

F ALL
Allende, Isabel and Peden, Margaret Sayers. The House of the spirits / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1985].*

F ATW
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. Alias Grace. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York: Anchor   Books, [1996].  

F BEN
Benchley, Peter. Beast / Peter Benchley. 1st ed. New York: Random House, [1991].

F BEN
Benchley, Peter. The deep / Peter Benchley. London: Pan Books, [1976].

F BEN
Bennett, Jay. The executioner / Jay Bennett. New York: Avon Books, [1982]. 

F BEN
Bennett, Jay. The skeleton man : a novel / by Jay Bennett. New York: F. Watts,   [1986].  

F BRA
Bradbury, Ray, 1920. Something wicked this way comes / Ray Bradbury. Toronto;
   New York: Bantam Books, [1985, 1962].*

F CHR
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie. New   York, NY: HarperPaperbacks, [1991, 1933].  

F CLA
Clark, Mary Higgins. A cry in the night. New York, NY: Pocket Books, [1993, 1982].  

F CLA
Clark, Mary Higgins. Stillwatch: Fontana, [1985, 1984].

F DUM
Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame, 1907. Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier. New York: Modern   Library, [1938].

F DUN
Duncan, Lois, 1934. Down a dark hall / Lois Duncan. New York: Dell Pub.Co, [1990, 1974].    

F DUN
Duncan, Lois, 1934. Stranger with my face / by Lois Duncan. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, [1981].    

F ECO
Eco, Umberto. The Name of the rose / Translated from the Italian by WilliamWeaver. [New York]: Warner, [1984,1983].  

F HIL
Hill, Susan, 1942. The Woman in Black / Susan Hill ; illustrations by John Lawrence. 1st U.S. ed. Boston: D.R. Godine, [1986, 1983].   

J F ISH
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954. A pale view of hills / Kazuo Ishiguro. London: Penguin, [1982].  

F JAC
Jackson, Shirley, 1919-1965. The haunting of Hill House / Shirley Jackson. NewYork, N.Y: Penguin, [1984]. 

F JAM
James, P. D. The black tower / by P. D. James. Sphere, [1976, 1975].

F JAM
James, P. D. Original sin / P.D. James. 1st American ed. New York: Knopf :Distributed by Randon House, Inc, [1994].  

F KIN
King, Stephen, 1947. 'Salem's lot / Stephen King. New York, N.Y: Signet, [1976, 1975].  

F LES
Lessing, Doris May, 1919. The fifth child. New York: Vintage Books, [1989,1988].   The library has five copies.

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