Gothic Tales

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Gaskell, Elizabeth	4-week checkout	Due 03-13-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Horror / Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn	4-week checkout	Due 05-17-2024

Disappearances -- The old nurse's story -- The squire's story -- The poor Clare -- The doom of the Griffiths -- Lois the witch -- The crooked branch -- Curious, if true -- The grey woman.
An encounter with the supernatural in an everyday setting accentuates its strangeness; a truth used to eerie effect in Gaskell's Gothic tales. A portrait turned to the wall, a hidden manuscript, a mysterious child that lives on the freezing moors, a doppelganger formed by a women's bitter curse: all of these things hint at male tyranny and woman as avenging angel - or devil." "Gaskell was fascinated by the dualities in women's lives and the way in which fact and fiction merge. 'Disappearances', a mix of gossip, legend and fact, relates stories of mysterious vanishings, 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to communal hysteria and persecution, while 'The Grey Woman' explores a common Gothic theme, the way in which the ghosts of the past always return to haunt us.

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