GOTHIC SHORT STORIES

Late in the 18th century authors began to write Gothic stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational， the supernatural and the bizarre， which had been neglected in the Age of Reason！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 n which Gothic diversified into the familiar forrns of the ghost- and horror-story.Work by writers such as Poe，Dickens，Hawthorne，Gaskel