By Amara Thornton
I put out a request on Twitter this morning with a Halloween-y twist. Use the hashtag #excavationgothic to add to the bibliography (below) of works featuring excavation (or antiquities) in a gothic setting!
Thank you to all the stellar folks who have already responded! The results, so far, are as follows (chronological, by date of publication).
2nd C: Pliny the Younger, "To Sura"
1820s
1827: Jane (Webb) Loudon, The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
1860s
1862: Anon, "The Mummy's Soul"
1867: Louisa May Alcott, "Lost in a Pyramid"
1868: Jane Austin, "After Three Thousand Years"
1880s
1882: Theophile Gautier, "The Mummy's Foot"
1885: Thomas Hardy, "A Tryst in an Ancient Earthwork"
1887: Mary Elizabeth Braddon "From a Doctor's Diary"
1889: Eva Henry, "Curse of Vasartas"
1890s
1890: Thomas Hardy, "Barbara at the House of Grebe"
1892: Arthur Conan Doyle, "Lot No 249"
1892: Grant Allen, "Pallinghurst Barrow"
1895: Arthur Machen, "The Novel of the Black Seal"
1898: Herbert Crotzer, "The Block of Bronze"
1898: Arthur Conan Doyle, "Burger's Secret"
1898: E & H Heron (Hesketh Pritchard and Kate Pritchard), "The Story of Baelbrow"
1900s
1904: Charlotte Bryson Taylor, "In the Dwellings of the Wilderness"
1904: Montague Rhodes James, "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad"
1908: Algernon Blackwood, "The Nemesis of Fire"
1910s
1910: Arthur Conan Doyle, "Through the Veil"; "The Terror of Blue John Gap"
1911: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Ballad of the White Horse"
1913: Anon, "The Aldbrickham Skeleton"
1919: Francis Brett Young, "Song of the Dark Ages"
1920s
1921: Algernon Blackwood, "The Tarn of Sacrifice"
1921: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "The Nameless City"
1924: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs"
1924: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "Under the Pyramids"
1924/5: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Curse of the Golden Cross"
1925: Howard Christopher Bailey, "The Long Barrow"
1925: Montague Rhodes James, "A Warning to the Curious"
1928: Edward Frederic Benson "The Temple"
1929: Eleanor Scott, "The Cure"
1929: Eleanor Scott, "Celui-la"
1930s
1931: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "At the Mountains of Madness"
1933: Robert E. Howard, The Cairn on the Headland"
1934: Elliott O'Donnell, "The Mummy Worshippers"
1934/35: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "Shadow Out of Time"
1935: Clark Ashton Smith, "The Last Hieroglyph"
1935: Joseph O'Neill, "Land Under England"
1938: Thomas P. Kelley, "I Found Cleopatra"
1938: Edgar Hoffman Price, "The Woman in the Case"
1938: Dorothy Kathleen Broster, "The Pavement"
1940s
1945: Alfred Leslie Rowse, "The Stone that Liked Company"
1949: Nigel Kneale, "Minuke"
1950s
1951: Sarban (John William Wall), "Ringstones"
1951: Sarban (John William Wall), "Capra"
1951: Margery Lawrence, The Rent in the Veil
1952: Rose Macaulay, "Whitewash"
1970s
1971: Ramsey Campbell, "The End of a Summer's Day"
1971: Daphne Du Maurier, "Not After Midnight"
1975: Rosemary Timperley, "The Bandaged Man"
1980s
1989: Anne Rice, The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned
1990s
1996: Joyce Carol Oates, "The Temple"
1996: Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
2010s
2010: Rosalie M. Parker, "The Old Knowledge"
2013: Adam Roberts, "Tollund"
2013: Roger Luckhurst, "The Thing of Wrath"
2014: Robert Sharp, "The Good Shabti"
2014: Lesley Glaister, Little Egypt
I put out a request on Twitter this morning with a Halloween-y twist. Use the hashtag #excavationgothic to add to the bibliography (below) of works featuring excavation (or antiquities) in a gothic setting!
Thank you to all the stellar folks who have already responded! The results, so far, are as follows (chronological, by date of publication).
2nd C: Pliny the Younger, "To Sura"
1820s
1827: Jane (Webb) Loudon, The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
1860s
1862: Anon, "The Mummy's Soul"
1867: Louisa May Alcott, "Lost in a Pyramid"
1868: Jane Austin, "After Three Thousand Years"
1880s
1882: Theophile Gautier, "The Mummy's Foot"
1885: Thomas Hardy, "A Tryst in an Ancient Earthwork"
1887: Mary Elizabeth Braddon "From a Doctor's Diary"
1889: Eva Henry, "Curse of Vasartas"
1890s
1890: Thomas Hardy, "Barbara at the House of Grebe"
1892: Arthur Conan Doyle, "Lot No 249"
1892: Grant Allen, "Pallinghurst Barrow"
1895: Arthur Machen, "The Novel of the Black Seal"
1898: Herbert Crotzer, "The Block of Bronze"
1898: Arthur Conan Doyle, "Burger's Secret"
1898: E & H Heron (Hesketh Pritchard and Kate Pritchard), "The Story of Baelbrow"
1900s
1904: Charlotte Bryson Taylor, "In the Dwellings of the Wilderness"
1904: Montague Rhodes James, "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad"
1908: Algernon Blackwood, "The Nemesis of Fire"
1910s
1910: Arthur Conan Doyle, "Through the Veil"; "The Terror of Blue John Gap"
1911: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Ballad of the White Horse"
1913: Anon, "The Aldbrickham Skeleton"
1919: Francis Brett Young, "Song of the Dark Ages"
1920s
1921: Algernon Blackwood, "The Tarn of Sacrifice"
1921: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "The Nameless City"
1924: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs"
1924: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "Under the Pyramids"
1924/5: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Curse of the Golden Cross"
1925: Howard Christopher Bailey, "The Long Barrow"
1925: Montague Rhodes James, "A Warning to the Curious"
1928: Edward Frederic Benson "The Temple"
1929: Eleanor Scott, "The Cure"
1929: Eleanor Scott, "Celui-la"
1930s
1931: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "At the Mountains of Madness"
1933: Robert E. Howard, The Cairn on the Headland"
1934: Elliott O'Donnell, "The Mummy Worshippers"
1934/35: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "Shadow Out of Time"
1935: Clark Ashton Smith, "The Last Hieroglyph"
1935: Joseph O'Neill, "Land Under England"
1938: Thomas P. Kelley, "I Found Cleopatra"
1938: Edgar Hoffman Price, "The Woman in the Case"
1938: Dorothy Kathleen Broster, "The Pavement"
1940s
1945: Alfred Leslie Rowse, "The Stone that Liked Company"
1949: Nigel Kneale, "Minuke"
1950s
1951: Sarban (John William Wall), "Ringstones"
1951: Sarban (John William Wall), "Capra"
1951: Margery Lawrence, The Rent in the Veil
1952: Rose Macaulay, "Whitewash"
1970s
1971: Ramsey Campbell, "The End of a Summer's Day"
1971: Daphne Du Maurier, "Not After Midnight"
1975: Rosemary Timperley, "The Bandaged Man"
1980s
1989: Anne Rice, The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned
1990s
1996: Joyce Carol Oates, "The Temple"
1996: Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
2010s
2010: Rosalie M. Parker, "The Old Knowledge"
2013: Adam Roberts, "Tollund"
2013: Roger Luckhurst, "The Thing of Wrath"
2014: Robert Sharp, "The Good Shabti"
2014: Lesley Glaister, Little Egypt
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