The Tale of Terror; a study of the Gothic romance
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The Tale of Terror; a study of the Gothic romance[1] is a survey on Gothic literature by Edith Birkhead first published in 1921 It described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer in 1820 on to modern times. She included works from Europe as well as America, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
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