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A review by articsunflower
Gothic Short Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, E.F. Benson, David Stuart Davies, Ralph Adams Cram, M.R. James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Dickens, S. Carleton, Charles Robert Maturin, Walter Scott, David Blair, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathan Drake, Richard Barham Middleton, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.0
I was definitely expecting other kind of stories.
The first ones were quite hard to get through, mainly because their writing was really complex.
I still really loved a few stories, but overall I was disappointed.
(Out of 5)
Sir Bertrand: A Fragment - 2.5
Captive of the Banditti - 2.5
Extracts from Gosschen’s Diary: No.1 - 4
The Parricide’s Tale - 4
The Spectre Bride - 2
The Tapestried Chamber - 3
Berenice - 3.5
A Madman’s Manuscript - 4
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter - 4.5
Ethan Brand - 1
The Old Nurse’s Story - 4.5
The Body Snatcher - 3.5
The Yellow Wallpaper - 5
The Death of Halpin Frayser - 2
Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook - 3
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince - 3.5
The Lame Priest - 4
Luella Miller - 4.5
The Bird in the Garden - 2
The Room in the Tower - 4.5
The first ones were quite hard to get through, mainly because their writing was really complex.
I still really loved a few stories, but overall I was disappointed.
(Out of 5)
Sir Bertrand: A Fragment - 2.5
Captive of the Banditti - 2.5
Extracts from Gosschen’s Diary: No.1 - 4
The Parricide’s Tale - 4
The Spectre Bride - 2
The Tapestried Chamber - 3
Berenice - 3.5
A Madman’s Manuscript - 4
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter - 4.5
Ethan Brand - 1
The Old Nurse’s Story - 4.5
The Body Snatcher - 3.5
The Yellow Wallpaper - 5
The Death of Halpin Frayser - 2
Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook - 3
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince - 3.5
The Lame Priest - 4
Luella Miller - 4.5
The Bird in the Garden - 2
The Room in the Tower - 4.5