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Tales of the Dead: Ghost Stories of the Villa Diodati

Terry Hale

First published 1992
Publisher The Gothic Society
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages 143
ISBN 1874100039


6 stories {{tr|{{a|Sarah Elizabeth Utterson}}}}, perhaps uncredited Library records imply that the translator is not credited on the title page.

This is a new edition of 1813 anthology Tales of the Dead, "principally translated from the French" by Utterson. Five of the six stories were translated by Utterson, who wrote the other story herself. All contributions were uncredited.

"The English translation from the French as Tales of the Dead appeared in 1813, but would not be reprinted until almost a hundred and eighty years later." --Maximiliaan van Woudenberg, "The Variants and Transformations of Fantasmagoriana: Tracing a Travelling Text to the Byron–Shelley Circle", Romanticism 20.3, October 2014 (viewed at Edinburgh University Press)


Edited and introduced by Terry Hale.
This is the first reprint of Tales of the Dead (1813). See the anthology record. Library records imply that the translator is not credited on the title page.

This publication record originally cited "Information from OCLC, Amazon and Vault of Horror." WorldCat library records found 2019-12-21 (5) report no story titles, nor the credited names of contributors other than Hale. Probably the story titles and author names below are from Vault of Horror, or from a "Look inside" or back cover image that Amazon provided in the past.

WorldCat record OCLC 877448388 reports "[144] pages".

Cover image from Amazon UK 2019-12-21 as "The Gothic Society; First Edition edition (1 Sept. 1992)".

Year Reviewer Publication
1993 Brian Stableford News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews
1993 Brian Stableford Necrofile, Winter 1993

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