READING LIST FOR THE GOTHIC EXPERIENCE
BOOKS
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Jackson, Shirley (1919-65). The Haunting of Hill House. Viking Penguin.
$11.95.
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James, Henry (1845-1916). The Turn of the Screw. Dover Thrift. $1.00.
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Poe, Edgar A. (1804-49). The Gold-bug and Other Tales. Dover Thrift.
$1.00.
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Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823). The Sicilian (1790). Oxford World's
Classic. $8.95.
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Saki (H. H. Munro, 1870-1916). Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories.
Dover Thrift. $1.00.
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Shelley, Mary (1797-1851). Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
(1818) in Three Gothic Novels, ed. Peter Fairclough. Penguin Classics.
$4.95.
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Stoker, Bram (1847-1912). Dracula (1897). New American Library/Penguin.
$4.95.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-94). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde (1886). Dover Thrift. $1.00.
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Walpole, Horace (1717-97). The Castle of Otranto (1764) in Three
Gothic Novels, ed. Peter Fairclough. Penguin Classics. (See Shelley, Mary
for price.)
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Wilde, Oscar (1954-1900). The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Dover
Thrift.
XEROX COURSE PACKET (Far Better Service)
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Benson, E.F. (1867-1940). "Caterpillars."
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Broster, Dorothy Kathleen (d. 1950). "Crouching at the Door.".
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Blackwood, Algernon (1869-1951 ). "The Transfer," "The Wendigo," "The Willows."
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Faulkner, William (1897-1962). "A Rose for Emily."
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Jacobs, W.W. (1863-1943). "The Monkey's Paw."
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James, Montague Rhodes (1862-1936). "Casting the Runes," "Oh, Whistle,
and I'll Come to You, My Lad," "Count Magnus," "The Mezzotint."
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Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936). "They," "The Mark of the Beast."
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LeFanu, Sheridan (1814-1873). "Carmilla," "Green Tea," "Schalken the Painter."
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Lovecraft, Howard Philip (1890-1937). "The Rats in the Walls, "The Colour
out of Space," "The Cult of Cthulhu," "The Dunwich Horror."
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Machen, Arthur (1863-1947). "The Great God Pan."
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Moore, Catherine L. (1911- ). "Shambleau."
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Rymer, James Malcolm (1814-1881). Chapters I-II, Varney the Vampire, or,
The Feast of Blood (1845-7).
SYLLABUS
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Sept. 2 Introduction/Netscape and the World Wide
Web
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Sept. 9 Walpole, The Castle of Otranto,
p. 51-148
Radcliffe, The Sicilian Romance, 1-88
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Sept, 16 Radcliffe, pp. 89-194
Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The
Masque of the Red Death," "Ligeia"
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Oct. 7 Shelley, Frankenstein
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Oct. 14 Rymer, "Varney the Vampire" (packet)
LeFanu, "Carmilla," "Green Tea," "Schalken the Painter" (packet)
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Oct. 21 Stoker, Dracula
First paper
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Oct. 28 Stoker
Moore, "Shambleau" (packet)
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Nov. 4 Midterm
James, M.R. "Casting the Runes" "Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You,
My Lad," "Count Magnus," "The Mezzotint" (packet)
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Nov. 11 Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Nov. 18 James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw
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Nov. 25 Kipling, "They," "The Mark of the Beast"
(packet)
Jacobs, "The Monkey's Paw" (packet)
Benson, "Caterpillars" (packet)
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Dec. 2 Blackwood, "The Transfer,"
"The Wendigo," "The Willows" (packet)
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Machen, "The Great God Pan" (packet)
Second paper
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Dec. 9 Faulkner, "A Rose for
Emily" (packet)
Lovecraft, "The Rats in the Walls," "The Colour out of Space," "The
Cult of Cthulhu," "The Dunwich Horror" (packet)
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Dec. 16 Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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