![]() ![]() They’re gonna can me at the university if they find out about this. So sometimes you build something, and it gets away. It’s alive! I’d better beat it over the head repeatedly with a fire extinguisher. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was as in all Gothic novels, horror is the Just did a bit-torrent-style grave robbery. ![]() ![]() Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. ![]()
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