Best of
Gothic

1982

The Dwindling Party


Edward Gorey - 1982
    Pop-up illustrations and verses divulge how, one by one, six members of the MacFizzet family monstrously disappear during a visit to Hickyacket Hall, leaving behind only young Neville, who expects "it was all for the best."

The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life


Michael Talbot - 1982
    Their arts and science are the light of civilization. Their consciousness, so old, so vastly superior, stands vigil over human progress. They were the Illuminali, They are the vampire. The players in this story are: Dr. John Gladstone, a fashionable London virologist on the verge of altering history; his elder daughter Ursula, enticed by the lure of immortality; his younger daughter Camille, bereft of reason, bestowed with genius; and the Lady Hespeth, whose obession is a mask of the unimaginable.

My Sweet Audrina


V.C. Andrews - 1982
    Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating new cast of characters in this haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love. Audrina Adare wanted so to be as good as her sister. She knew her father could not love her as he loved her sister. Her sister was so special, so perfect -- and dead. Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret that everyone knows. Everyone except... My Sweet Audrina

Emerald


Phyllis A. Whitney - 1982
    To escape him, Carol seeks refuge at the Palm Springs home of her great-aunt, Monica Arlen, a once-celebrated movie star. While under her spell, Carol, a journalist, decides to write a book about Monica. What she doesn't realize, though, is that digging into the past is going to break open old and terrible secrets that set the stage for murder....

The Haunted Dollhouse


Terry Berger - 1982
    On her thirteenth birthday, Sarah wakes up inside the mysterious Victorian dollhouse she has wished for, and spends the day there alone in an atmosphere of doom.

The Dark Crystal


David Anthony Kraft - 1982
    On a faraway planet, Jen, the last of the Gelflings, is given the mission of restoring a missing shard to the great Crystal and preventing the tragedy of a Skeksis triumph when the Three Suns merge.

The Gothic Novel, 1790-1830: Plot Summaries and Index to Motifs


Ann Blaisdell Tracy - 1982
    

The Seed from the Sepulchre


Clark Ashton Smith - 1982
    

Emelie


Melissa Mather - 1982
    But that tragic passion from the past threatens to destroy her future...

The Cursed Heiress


June Harris - 1982