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 doppelg nger 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.
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