{"product_id":"the-oxford-book-of-gothic-tales-9780199561537","title":"The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales","description":"Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, this work offers a collection devoted to the best of the Gothic genre. Each story contains the common elements of the gothic talea warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet taken together, they reveal the progression of the genre from stories of feudal villains amid crumbling ruins to a greater level of sophistication in which writers brought the gothic tale out of its medieval setting, and placed it in the contemporary world. Bringing together the work of such writers as Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jorge Luis Borges, \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Book of Gothic Tales\u003c\/em\u003e presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199561537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Chris Baldick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44391996194997,"sku":"9780199561537","price":19.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_545c3414-ea7e-4d2d-b933-ad0ff1c074b5.jpg?v=1719949549","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-oxford-book-of-gothic-tales-9780199561537","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}