Great short gothic stories

Brevity, synthesis, narrative sobriety are not virtues typical of Gothic literature, and even less so of Gothic stories, usually bombastic, exaggerated, overflowing with imagination.

In this 2002 horror anthology: Great short gothic stories (Gothic Short Stories), some notable examples of brevity in the Gothic story are grouped together; always within its structure and dense, suffocating atmospheres, as if the reader had to traverse the plot through a thick fog:

Great short gothic stories.
Gothic Short Stories.

Berenice (Berenice, Edgar Allan Poe) The Body Snatcher (Robert Louis Stevenson) Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook (MR James) A ​​Madman’s Manuscript (Charles Dickens) The Yellow Tapestry (The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman) Ethan Brand (Ethan Brand, Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Old Nurse’s Story (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Tapestried Chamber (Walter Scott) The Room in the Tower (The Room in the Tower, EF Benson) The Death of Halpin Frayser (Ambrose Bierce) The Specter Bride (anonymous) Luella Miller (Luella Miller, Mary Wilkins Freeman) Schalken, the painter (Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter, Sheridan Le Fanu)
The story of the parricide (The Parricide’s Tale, Charles Maturin)
The bird in the garden (The Bird in the Garden, Richard Middleton)
The lame priest (The Lame Priest, S. Carleton)
Number 252 Rue. the Prince (No. 252 Rue M. le Prince, Ralph Adams Cram)
Sir Bertrand: a fragment (Sir Bertrand: A Fragment, Anna Letitia Barbauld)

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