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Originally published in 1996. In The Cryptographic Imagination, Shawn Rosenheim uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to li

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Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with Gothic literature.

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