more gothic stories
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Read some more of The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Rappaccini’s Daughter was already a firm favourite of mine, in fact it’s one of my all-time favourite short stories. It’s really a mix of gothic and science fiction, and has a wonderfully unhealthy feel to it. Bret Harte’s Selina Sidelia is a gothic parody, and it’s quite delightful and very funny. George Washington Cable’s Jean-Ah Poquelin didn’t do much for me. Robert Louis Stevenson is a writer I find to be very uneven, but Olalla is a good story. The gothic preoccupation with family degeneration is very powerfully evoked.
dfordoom)Read some more of The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Rappaccini’s Daughter was already a firm favourite of mine, in fact it’s one of my all-time favourite short stories. It’s really a mix of gothic and science fiction, and has a wonderfully unhealthy feel to it. Bret Harte’s Selina Sidelia is a gothic parody, and it’s quite delightful and very funny. George Washington Cable’s Jean-Ah Poquelin didn’t do much for me. Robert Louis Stevenson is a writer I find to be very uneven, but Olalla is a good story. The gothic preoccupation with family degeneration is very powerfully evoked.
