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Slaughtered farm animals, Chupacabras demons, and the adolescent lust for sex: Marilyn Brock's first collection of stories, Beaux Fest for the Wicked, explores our fascination with horror in the context of frightening changes from society and from within. Brock's protagonists teeter on the edge of society and the cusp of adulthood, are forced to grapple with unexplained mysteries not only in their own neighborhoods, but in their own broken families. In "Seattle's Best Neighborhood," a girl and her friends attempt to solve two mysteries in their town- slaughtered cows that keep appearing, and...

This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Bronte. Each essay explores the authors' use of archetypal Gothic elements, such as dark secrets and forbidden sensations, to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism.