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Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in The Old Nurse's Story a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors. Whether darkly surreal, such as 'The Poor Clare', where an evil doppelganger is formed by a woman's bitter curse, or mischievous like 'Curious, if True', a playful reworking of fairy tales, all the stories in this volume form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell's novels, revealing a darker and more unsettling style of writing.
| ISBN | 014043741X | | Pages | 416 | | ISBN13 | 9780140437416
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 288 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series editor | Ingham, Patricia | | Publication date | 14 Aug 2000 | | Series title | Penguin Classics S. | | Writer of introduction | Laura Kranzler | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Library of Congress | PR4710 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 823.8 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Chronology | | | | | | Introduction | | | | | | Further Reading | | | | | | Note on the Texts | | | | | | Disappearances | | 1 | | | | The Old Nurse's Story | | 11 | | | | The Squire's Story | | 33 | | | | The Poor Clare | | 49 | | | | The Doom of the Griffiths | | 103 | | | | Lois the Witch | | 139 | | | | The Crooked Branch | | 227 | | | | Curious, if True | | 271 | | | | The Grey Woman | | 287 | | | | Appendix | | 341 | | | | Notes | | 342 |
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