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  • (Aickman, Robert) Robert Aickman--an Appreciation

    Critical articles, excerpts, information on the Collected Works and forthcoming volumes, and related links.

  • (James, M. R.) Ghosts and Scholars

    Newsletter encouraging scholarly research into James, his themes, nd his followers.

  • (Lovecraft, H. P.) The H. P. Lovecraft Archive

    This site provides information about Lovecraft's life, writings, and other critical and biographical work. Includes additional internet resources.

  • (Machen, Arthur) Friends of Arthur Machen

    Biography, bibliography, full-text of several short pieces.

  • (Poe, Edgar Allen) Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane

    Online exhibition companion features ""many of Poe's unique manuscripts and letters, scarce copies of his first editions, rare examples of the original newspaper and magazine issues in which much of his work first appeared, and editions of his most famous poem, 'The Raven.'"

  • Dark Side of the Net

    Directory of websites featuring many full-text stories of horror and hte supernatural.

  • Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature

    An exhibition which "encourages audiences to examine Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, and its influence on science fiction, monsters and their place in history, and man playing God."

  • Gothic Literature Page

    Devoted to the study of Gothic Literature from 1764 to 1834. Provides students and scholars of the Gothic novel access to the growing number of resources available on the web.

  • Horror Writers Association
  • International Gothic Association

    The IGA (founded in 1991) has developed this site to provide a wide and up-to-date range of helpful information on the study of the Gothic. One of the Association's main goals is to disseminate information and research/teaching prospects on theGothic as widely and usefully as possible. Contains an excellent list of Gothic web links.

  • Literary Gothic

    A browsable site from Southern Illinois University which serves as a "guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, 'classic' Gothic novels and gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-c20."

  • Tabula Rasa: Horror Fiction

    Interviews with horror authors, and a number of relevant articles with bibliographies.

  • Weird Tales

    A website devoted to the 30-year history of this influential pulp magazine, which published the likes of H. P Lovecraft,Ray Bradbury, Robert Howard, Robert Bloch, Manly Wade Wellman, Donald Wandrei, and even TennesseeWilliams.

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