Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine
by Morrison, Robert; Baldick, ChrisFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-01-11
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
The tales of terror and hysteria published in the heydey (1817-32) of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine became a literary legend in the nineteenth century. Blackwood's was the most important and influential literary-political journal of its time, and a major institution not just in Scottish letters but in the development of British and American Romanticism. This edition selects some of the best tales from the magazine's first fifteen years, and includes works by well-known writers such as Walter Scott, James Hogg, and John Galt alongside talented but now almost forgotten authors like William Godwin, Samuel Warren, and William Mudford.
Author Biography
Robert Morrison is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Acadia University, Nova Scotia. Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmith's College, London. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, Trent's Last Case (Oxford Popular Fiction), and the author of The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Note on the Text | |
| Select Bibliography | |
| Chronology of Blackwood's Magazine | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Sketch of a Tradition Related by a Monk in Switzerland | p. 3 |
| Narrative of a Fatal Event | p. 9 |
| Extracts from Gosschen's Diary | p. 19 |
| A Night in the Catacombs | p. 25 |
| The Buried Alive | p. 35 |
| The Floating Beacon | p. 39 |
| The Man in the Bell | p. 61 |
| The Last Man | p. 67 |
| Le Revenant | p. 73 |
| The Murder Hole | p. 89 |
| Heat and Thirst, - A Scene in Jamaica | p. 97 |
| The Iron Shroud | p. 101 |
| The Mysterious Bride | p. 115 |
| The Executioner | p. 131 |
| A 'Man about Town' | p. 181 |
| The Spectre-Smitten | p. 215 |
| The Thunder-Struck and The Boxer | p. 243 |
| Biographical Notes | p. 281 |
| Explanatory Notes | p. 285 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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