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Gothic classics

Format: Print Book 2007
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Braddock Carnegie Library Teen Fiction YA GN POM V# 14
Location  Braddock Carnegie Library
 
Collection  Teen Fiction
 
Call Number  YA GN POM V# 14
 
 

Summary
Gothic Classics presents Ann Radcliffe's archetypal gothic novel The Mysteries of Udopho , adapted by Antonella Caputo and Carlo Vergara.Plus: Jane Austen's gothic parody Northanger Abbey " by Trina Robbins andAnne Timmons; and Poe's "The Oval Portrait" by Malaysian illustrator Leong WanKok. Also "At the Gate," a ghost story with dogs by Myla Jo Closser, illustratedby Shary Flenniken;, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu's great vampire tale "Carmilla," byRod Lott and Lisa K. Weber. With a dramatic cover painting from "Carmilla" byLisa K. Weber.
Contents
I've a pain in my head / Jane Austen
Carmilla / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The mysteries of Udolpho / Ann Radcliffe
The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe
Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen
At the gate / Myla Jo Closser.
Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "The newest volume in the Graphic Classics series offers five delicious selections featuring ghosts, vampires, and haunted castles that call to mind the classic horror movies put out by Hammer Studios. Prefaced by by Molly Kiely's version of Jane Austen's poem I've a Pain in My Head, the collection includes Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, energetically adapted by Rod Lott with beautiful art from Lisa K. Weber, and Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, faithfully rendered with smooth lines and high contrast by Carlo Vergara.--Coleman, Tina Copyright 2007 Booklist"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "Mystery, terror, imprisonment, death: the great gothic themes are explored in these five well-chosen, seminal tales. "Carmilla," by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu sets the tone for the collection, with its dreamy, swirling art by Lisa K. Weber and its haunting story of a corrupt, corrupting beauty. Edgar Allan Poe is represented by "The Oval Portrait," in which Poe's customary bewildered narrator comes to realize he's staring at an object of horror-a not unpredictable development given that he was spending the night in a ruined, abandoned castle. Ann Radcliffe's inimitable "Mysteries of Udolpho" is rendered in a faithful, nearly documentary style by Carlo Vergara, while Jane Austen's play upon the gothic, "Northanger Abbey," is charmingly illustrated by Anne Timmons. The collection ends on a sweeter, melancholy note with the little known "At the Gate" by Myla Jo Closser, in which a crowd of dogs waits in a mysterious land of limbo. The Airedale protagonist realizes, along with the reader, that they are anticipating reunions with their human families, who usually take much longer to reach this shadow land than do their shorter-lived pets. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information
Series Graphic classics ; v. 14.
Subjects Horror comic books, strips, etc.
Publisher Mount Horeb, Wis. :Eureka Productions,2007
Other Titles I've a pain in my head.
Carmilla.
Mysteries of Udolpho.
Oval portrait.
Northanger Abbey.
At the gate.
Contributors Pomplun, Tom.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. I've a pain in my head.
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873. Carmilla.
Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823. Mysteries of Udolpho.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Oval portrait.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Northanger Abbey.
Closser, Myla Jo. At the gate.
Language English
Description 144 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
ISBN 9780978791902 :
0978791908
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