3 books like The Death of Jane Lawrence
Midnight At Mallyncourt
In the menacing wings of a Victorian mansion actress Jennifer Randall plays her most terrifying role.
When the advances of her employer force her to abandon her promising acting career and leave her penniless, Jennifer Randall agrees to pose as Edward Baker's wife in order to help him secure his fortune.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by…
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The Evil Image
xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe
xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredited
2 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury…
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