Good Lady Ducayne

Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528766142

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Good Lady Ducayne by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Pdf

Good Lady Ducayne', is a gothic novella by Mary Elizabeth Braddon originally published in 1869. It is a nineteenth century incarnation of the popular vampire myth, setting it against the backdrop of an Anglicised region of the Italian Riviera during the Victorian era. This is a great read and an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the genre. To this republication is added a specially commissioned brand new short biography of the author.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528766159

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The Shadow in the Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Pdf

The Shadow in the Corner' is a gothic short story, written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and first published in 1879. It tells the story of Michael Bascom, a reclusive scientist, who lives in an old mansion called Wildheath Grange. His man servant informs him that they need a girl to help his wife around the house. An orphan girl takes the role, but informs Bascom that she is very uncomfortable with her lodgings. She says she sees a mysterious shadow in her room at night. The house is rumoured to be haunted, but the scientist doesn't believe her, that is, until he experiences it himself. To compliment the republication of this work, a specially commissioned new introductory biography of the author has been added.

Author : M. E. Braddon
Publisher : Readhowyouwant
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1425044018

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Good Lady Ducayne by M. E. Braddon Pdf

Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Borgo Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1557423318

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At Chrighton Abbey and Other Horror Stories by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Pdf

Braddon is remembered among fans of weird fiction for her classic horror and ghost stories, the most famous of which are collected here. Stories include "At Chrighton Abbey, " "The Cold Embrace, " and "The Shadow in the Corner."

Author : Marlene Tromp,Pamela K. Gilbert,Aeron Haynie
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438422336

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Beyond Sensation by Marlene Tromp,Pamela K. Gilbert,Aeron Haynie Pdf

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, journal editor and bestselling author of more than eighty novels during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a key figure in the Victorian literary scene. This volume brings together new essays from a variety of perspectives that illuminate both the richness of Braddon's oeuvre and the variety of critical approaches to it. Best known as the author of Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd, Braddon also wrote penny dreadfuls, realist novels, plays, short stories, reviews, and articles. The contributors move beyond her two most famous works and reflect a range of current issues and approaches, including gender, genre, imperialism, colonial reception, commodity culture, and publishing history. Contributors include Jennifer Carnell, Jeni Curtis, Pamela K. Gilbert, Lauren Goodlad, Aeron Haynie, Heidi Holder, Gail Turley Houston, Heidi H. Johnson, Toni Johnson-Woods, James R. Kincaid, Elizabeth Langland, Eve Lynch, Graham Law, Katherine Montweiler, Lillian Nayder, Lyn Pykett, and Tabitha Sparks, and Marlene Tromp.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Gothic fiction
ISBN : 0712357513

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The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Pdf

A young girl whose love for her fiance continues even after her death; a sinister old lady with claw-like hands who cares little for the qualities of her companions provided they are young and full of life; and a haunted mirror that drains the beauty from those who gaze into its depths and reflects back a withered old age. These are just some of the haunting and terrifying tales gathered in this new collection of macabre short stories. The Face in the Glass highlights the deliciously dark imagination of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, an author increasingly seen as one of the finest and most entertaining of her generation. This is the first selection of Braddon's supernatural short stories to be widely available in over 100 years. By turns curious, sinister, haunting and terrifying, each tale explores in dazzling fashion the dark shadows beyond the rational world. The Face in the Glass is edited and introduced by Greg Buzwell, Curator of Printed Literary Sources at the British Library and co-curator of the major exhibition Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination."

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780337029

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The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women by Stephen Jones Pdf

Collected here for the first time are 34 strange and erotic tales of vampires, created by some of supernatural fiction's greatest mistresses of the macabre. From the classic stories of Edith Nesbit, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern incarnations by such acclaimed writers as Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, Caitlin R. Kiernan and Pat Cadigan, these blood-drinkers and soul-stealers range from the sexual to the sanguinary, from the tormented good to the unspeakably evil. Among these children of the night you will encounter Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, Nancy A. Collins' undead heroine Sonja Blue, Tanya Huff's vampiric detective Vicki Nelson and Freda Warrington's age-old lovers Karl and Charlotte. Featuring the only vampire short story written by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and boasting an autobiographical introduction and original tale by Ingrid Pitt, the star of Hammer Films' The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this is one anthology from which every vampire fan will want to drink deeply.

Author : Brooke Cameron,Lara Karpenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000598452

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The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Brooke Cameron,Lara Karpenko Pdf

Against the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period’s fears as well as its forbidden desires. This volume looks at both the range among and legacy of vampires in the nineteenth century, including race, culture, social upheaval, gender and sexuality, new knowledge and technology. The figure increased in popularity throughout the century and reached its climax in Dracula (1897), the most famous story of bloodsuckers. This book includes chapters on Bram Stoker’s iconic novel, as well as touchstone texts like John William Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819) and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872), but it also focuses on the many “Other” vampire stories of the period. Topics discussed include: the long-war veteran and aristocratic vampire in Varney; the vampire as addict in fiction by George MacDonald; time discipline in Eric Stenbock’s Studies of Death; fragile female vampires in works by Eliza Lynn Linton; the gender and sexual contract in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne;” cultural appropriation in Richard Burton’s Vikram and the Vampire; as well as Caribbean vampires and the racialized Other in Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire. While drawing attention to oft-overlooked stories, this study ultimately highlights the vampire as a cultural shape-shifter whose role as “Other” tells us much about Victorian culture and readers’ fears or desires.

Author : Leslie Shepard
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806507047

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The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories by Leslie Shepard Pdf

Includes such tales as "The horla," "The sad story of a vampire," "For the blood is the life," and "Dracula's guest"

Author : Andrew Maunder
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816074969

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The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story by Andrew Maunder Pdf

A comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.

Author : Michael Sims
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408828533

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Dracula's Guest by Michael Sims Pdf

Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us... Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Aleksei Tolstoy's tale of a vampire family to Fitz James O'Brien's invisible monster to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rich and sinister widow, Good Lady Ducayne. Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and finishes the collection with Stoker's own Dracula's Guest - a chapter omitted from his landmark novel. Vampires captivated Victorian society, and these wonderful stories demonstrate how Romantic and Victorian writers refined the raw ore of peasant superstition into a whole vampire mythology of aristocratic decadence and innocence betrayed.

Author : Aspasia Stephanou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137349231

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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood by Aspasia Stephanou Pdf

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307473899

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The Vampire Archives by Otto Penzler Pdf

The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler—editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps—has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever. With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there. Other contributors include: Arthur Conan Doyle • Ray Bradbury • Ambrose Bierce • H. P. Lovecraft • Harlan Ellison • Roger Zelazny • Robert Bloch • Clive Barker

Author : Marilyn Brock
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786454402

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From Wollstonecraft to Stoker by Marilyn Brock Pdf

This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Brontë. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements, such as dark secrets and forbidden sensations, to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism.

Author : Ethel Lina White
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547391487

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The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White Pdf

The Wheel Spins is the novel about young and bright Iris Carr, who is on her way back to England after spending a holiday somewhere in the Balkans. After she is left alone by her friends, Iris catches the train for Trieste and finds company in Miss Froy, chatty elderly English woman. When she wakes up from a short nap, she discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is on the verge of her nerves. She is helped by a young English traveler, and the two proceed to search the train for clues to the old woman's disappearance. Ethel Lina White (1876-1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins, on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes, was based.