The first modern reprinting of Shakespeare forger and novelist William-Henry Ireland's 1805 Gothic classic Gondez the Monk tells the tale of King Robert Bruce, who following his defeat on the field of Methven, together with a small band of loyal followers, seeks refuge in Monastery of Saint Columba on the isle of Oronza. Slowly, they realize that his refuge, under power of the malicious Abbot Gondez, is a prison of unspeakable Gothic horrors: subterreaneous torture chambers, demon consorts, sexual slavery and necromancy. Hope resides in the incorruptable Huberto Avinzo, an orphan longing to know more about his parents. Aided by the Weird Sisters, Huberto will uncover the shocking story of his own past, and fall in love with Ronilda the Fair. But can he save her from Gondez's base sexual desires?

Gondez the Monk: A Romance of the Thirteenth Century

Literature & Fiction

William-Henry Ireland

Contemporary

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This new collection of nine rare Gothic tales has been assembled to represent a wide range of adaptations, redactions, plagiarisms and condensations of Gothic motifs and characterisations in the 1820s and 1830s. From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, The Monster Made By Man illustrates the evolution of the Gothic genre and revisits what is most horrifying- the familiar.

The Monster Made by Man: A Compendium of Gothic Adaptations

Potter, Franz J.

Literary

Rimualdo; Or, the Castle of Badajos

Ireland, William Henry

Stephen Cullen's The Haunted Priory; or, The Fortunes of the House of Rayo was first published in 1794, the same year Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. One of the first Gothic novels set in medieval Spain, it recounts the fall of the House of Rayo during the politically dangerous period of Peter the Cruel. Alphonso, son of Don Isidor, nephew of Baron de Rayo, is led to a ruinous chapel by a cowled spectre where he begins to unearth the mysteries surrounding his family. Skilled at utilizing familiar Gothic conventions, Cullen proves a master of Gothic horror in this early example of the historical Gothic. This new edition of The Haunted Priory includes the nineteenth century chapbook version of the novel, notes on the text and chapbook as well as contextual information on the Gothic novel in the late 18th century.

The Haunted Priory; Or, the Fortunes of the House of Rayo

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Cullen, Stephen

Mystery

A monastic shocker of sex and slaughter, The Abbess is a tale about the unspeakable agonies of medieval torture perpetrated in dank, subterranean burial chambers. Maddalena Rosa and Marcello Porta fight against the dark schemes and direful machinations of secret enemies and menacing parents in tale of love and passion, where nothing is as it seems. And amid the hungry rats and the well-used racks, amid the restraining chain and shackle poles, amid the thumb screws and branding irons is the sadistic and sexually-insatiable architect of this house of horrors- Vittoria Bracciano, otherwise known as The Abbess!!! Zittaw's edition includes a preface by the Gothic Novel specialist Benjamin F. Fisher and an introduction and notes by W.H. Ireland scholar Jeffrey Kahan, who suggests that Ireland's first Gothic was in many ways an extension of his Shakespeare forgeries.

The Abbess

Genre Fiction

This unique collection brings together six terrific and often horrifying Gothic tales into one small chapbook. 'The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin' tells the tale of Rosaline, whose father carries her off to a ruined abbey only to encounter the remains of a dark family secret; 'The Bleeding Nun of St. Catherine's' is an account of that secret involving seduction, the church and murder; 'The Castle on the Beach' richly illustrates divine justice; 'The Mysterious Monk' narrates the heroic deeds of Edwin in avenging the death of a Knight and thwarting a treasonous Baron; 'Courtney Castle' tells a tale of banditti, murder and virtue; and 'The Castle of Hospitality' underscores the necessity of heeding the call of the supernatural in an age of skepticism. Together they highlight the appeal that short tales of terror had on an audience use to triple decker novels. Published in 1801 by Ann Lemoine, Romances and Gothic Tales truly assembles a rare collection of popular fiction from the early nineteenth century.

Romances And Gothic Tales

A redaction of Charlotte Smith's well-known The Old Manor House (1793), Rayland Hall focuses on the secret cross-class romance of an impoverished young gentleman, who hopes to inherit the estate featured in the title, and a lovely but lowly quasi-servant, who is virtually imprisoned in its confines. Ranging widely across the social spectrum and crossing over into the America of the revolutionary wars, the tale downplays the usual "thrills and chills" associated with Gothic chapbooks to give unusual attention to everyday life and the serving classes, redefining Gothic themes and motifs in social and psychological terms. A significant entrant into the field of chapbooks, Rayland Hall modifies the standard assumptions both about the genre and about chapbook readers as a segment of the reading public in the early nineteenth century.

Rayland Hall; Or, the Remarkable Adventures of Orlando Somerville

Before the Count offers a corrective to the history of the literary vampire presenting a collection of other vampire tales written before Dracula. Some of the poems, plays, and stories included here are indeed melodramatic and perhaps even histrionic, but they offer important insight into the development of the vampire mythos in England from its literary beginning until the publication of Bram Stoker's novel. In so doing, it offers both scholars and students the opportunity to study the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary vampire in a more complete context. Included in this edition are excerpts from the early British newspaper accounts of vampires, the English translation of Dom Augustin Calment's book, and Lord Byron's "Fragment" in order to illustrate the genesis of John Polidori's The Vampyre a well as J. R. Planché's 1820 revision of the French play Le Vampire by Peirre Carmouche, Charles Nodier, and Achilles de Jouffroy, itself a revision of Polidori's story; Johann Wolfgang Goethe's The Bride of Corinth, Dion Boucicault's The Phantom, George Blink's The Vampire Bride and Rudyard Kipling's The Vampire.

Before the Count: British Vampire Tales, 1732-1897

The Castle of Tynemouth: A Tale

Harvey, Jane

The Bravo of Venice: A Romance

LEWIS, MATTHEW

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