Vulgar words in The Tale of Terror - A Study of the Gothic Romance (Page 1)
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Travellers in Thessaly in Apuleius' _Golden Ass_, like the fugitives in Shelley's _Zastrozzi_ and _St.
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There are incidents in _The Golden Ass_ as "horrid" as any of those devised by the writers of Gothic romance.
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It would, indeed, be no easy task to fashion scenes more terrifying than the mutilation of Socrates in _The Golden Ass_, by the witch, who tears out his heart and stops the wound with a sponge which falls out when he stoops to drink at a river, or than the strange apparition of a ragged, old woman who vanishes after leading the way to the room, where the baker's corpse hangs behind the door.
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Carathis, unawed by the effulgence of his infernal majesty, behaves like a buffoon, shouting at the Dives and actually attempting to thrust a Soliman from his throne, before she is finally whirled away with her heart aflame.
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If we may trust Polidori's account, Byron intended that the survivor, on his return to England, should be startled to behold his companion moving in society, and making love to his sister.
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He was inspired by the deserted rooms at the end of a long gallery in Knebworth House to set down the story of the ghost, Jenny Spinner, who was said to haunt them; and the concealed chamber in _The Haunted and the Haunters_ may have been a revived memory of the trap-door down which Lytton as a boy had "peeped with bristling hair into the shadowy abysses of hellhole."
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_Golden Ass_, Apuleius', 13, 14, 15.