Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks,

Shilling Shockers, and Short Tales of Terror

(1790-1830)

 

 

Internet Resources: Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
The Zittaw Press (Franz Potter)

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BALDICK, Chris. “The End of the Line: The Family Curse in Shorter Gothic Fiction” (pp. 147-57). In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, eds. Valeria Tinkler-Vilani, Peter Davidson and Jane Stevenson. Amsterdam and Atlanta : Rodopi, 1995.

BERMAN, Ruth. “Critical Reactions to Fantasy in Four Nineteenth Century Periodicals: Edinburgh Review, Blackwood’s, Fraser’s Magazine, and The Cornhill Magazine.” [GGI: 1083].

BRIGGS. Julia. Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story. [GGI: 1084].

FRANK, Frederick S. “Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks, and Short Stories in the Magazines” (pp. 133-46). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

HAINING, Peter. “Introduction.” To Gothic Tales of Terror: Classic Horror Stories from Great Britain, Europe, and the United States , 1765-1840. [GGI: 1085].

HAINING, Peter. “Introduction.” To Shilling Shockers: Stories of Terror from the Gothic Bluebooks. [GGI: 1086].

HAINING, Peter. “Introduction” (pp. 13-19). To Tales from the Gothic Bluebooks. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978. Rpt. Chislehurst, Kent, UK : Gothic Society at the Gargoyle’s Head Press, 1995.

HALL, Daniel. “The Gothic Tide: Schauerroman and Gothic Novel in the Late Eighteenth Century; Papers from the Conference Held at the University of Leeds from 15 to 17 September, 1997” (pp. 51-60). In The Novel in Anglo-German Context: Cultural Cross-Currents and Affinities, ed. Susanne Stark. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2000. 

JACOBS, Edward. “Anonymous Signatures: Circulating Libraries, Conventionality, and the Production of Gothic Romances.” ELH 62 (1995): 603-29.

KOCH, Angela. “Gothic Bluebooks in the Princely Library of Corvey and Beyond. “ Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text 9 (Dec 2002).  <http://www.cf.ac.uk./en-cap/corvey/articles/ cc09_n01.html> Accessed: 27 January 2003.

KOCH, Angela. "'The Absolute Horror of Horrors Revised' A Bibliographical Checklist of Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Bluebooks." Cardiff Corvey Articles 9:3 (2004): no pagination. Accessed: 20 April 2005.

MAYO, Robert D. “The Gothic Story in the Magazines.” [GGI: 1088].

MAYO, Robert D. “Gothic Romance in the Magazines.” [GGI: 1090].

MILBANK, Alison. “Gothic Satires, Histories, and Chapbooks.” Gothic Fiction: Rare Printed Works from the Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia. Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK: Adam Mathew Publications, 2003.

PITCHER, Edward W. “Changes in Short Fiction in Britain 1785-1810: Philosophic Tales, Gothic Tales, and Fragments and Visions.” [GGI: 1092].

PITCHER, Edward W. “Eighteenth-Century Gothic Fragments and the Paradigm of Violation and Repair.” Studies in Short Fiction 33 (1996): 35-42.

REDDEN, Sister Mary Maurita. The Gothic Fiction in the American Magazines (1765-1800). [GGI: 1093].

SEARCH, Pamela. The Supernatural in the English Short Story. [GGI: 1094].

SKARDA, Patricia L. and Nora Crow JAFFE. “Gen-eral Introduction.” To The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry. [GGI: 1095].

WATT, William Whyte. Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School : A Study of Chapbook Gothic Romances. [GGI: 0204].

WISE, Herbert A. and Phyllis FRASER. “Introduc-tion.” To Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural. [GGI: 1100].

 WOLF, Jack C. and Barbara H. WOLF. “Introduction.” To Ghosts, Castles, and Victims: Studies in Gothic Terror. [GGI: 1101].