id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 14154 Birkhead, Edith The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance .txt text/plain 75039 4552 72 vogue of the Gothic Romance and Tale of Terror towards the close the marvellous of old story with the natural of modern novels." purpose; critical estimate; _Valperga_; _The Last Man_; Mrs. Shelley's short tales; Polidori's _Ernestus Berchtold_, a stories; _Rookwood_, an attempt to bring the Radcliffe romance up romance in the history of fiction; the terrors of actual life in assigning _Sir Bertrand_ to Miss Aikin,[31] afterwards Mrs. Barbauld, though the story is not included in _The Works of Anne instinctive terror of the dark and the unseen, upon which Mrs. Radcliffe bases many of her most moving incidents. In Mrs. Radcliffe's stories, the shadow fades and disappears just the novels of Mrs. Radcliffe, and "Monk" Lewis. As the novel of terror passes from the hands of Mrs. Radcliffe to In his later novels Ainsworth abandoned the manner of Mrs. Radcliffe, but did not fail to make use of the motive of terror ./cache/14154.txt ./txt/14154.txt