The Foundations of Fiction - Gothic Horror: Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres
About this audiobook
Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.
Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues.
The mere placing of these two words together creates a picture and a feeling that dark times are coming. Something evil, perhaps unfathomable, will be launched upon us by an author’s imagination that is sure to bring consequences that may only unsettle but equally may go much, much further than anyone, at first, imagined.
01 - Foundations of Fiction - Gothic Horror - An Introduction
2 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
3 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens
4 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
5 - Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson
6 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
7 - The Dream by Mary Shelley
8 - Green Tea by Sheridan Le Fanu
9 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
10 - Count Magnus by M R James
11 - The Sand-Man by E T A Hoffman
12 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton
13 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
14 - The Yellow Sign by Robert W Chambers
15 - The Three Sisters by W W Jacobs
16 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman
17 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
18 - A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce
19 - Wake Not the Dead by Ernst Raupach
