![]() ![]() Horror, by contrast, ‘contracts, freezes, and nearly annihilates them’. ‘Terror and horror are so far opposite’, her fictional stand-in in the essay, Mr W_, observes, ‘that the first expands the soul, and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life’. ![]() ![]() In her posthumously published essay ‘On the Supernatural in Poetry’ (1826), Ann Radcliffe, the most popular, successful and well-remunerated Gothic writer of the late eighteenth century, set out an extremely influential distinction between the aesthetics of terror and horror. The cover image is created by Flame Tree Studio, based on artwork by Slava Gerj and Gabor Ruszkai.Ī copy of the CIP data for this book is available from the British Library.įLAME TREE PRESS | FICTION WITHOUT FRONTIERS No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Stories by modern authors are subject to international copyright law, and are licensed for publication in this volume.Īll rights reserved. Publisher & Creative Director: Nick WellsĮditorial Board: Catherine Taylor, Josie Mitchell, Gillian WhitakerįLAME TREE PUBLISHING 6 Melbray Mews, Fulham, London SW6 3NS, United KingdomĬopyright © 2016 Flame Tree Publishing Ltd ![]()
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