Portal:Northanger Abbey's "horrid" novels
In Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (1818) the following conversation takes place between Isabella Thorpe and Catherine Morland:
"Dear creature! How much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you.""Have you, indeed! How glad I am! What are they all?""I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time.""Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid?"
These titles were at one time thought to be parody titles of a type of work in fashion at the time, but all of them turned out to be real works.
- The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe
- The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) by Ann Radcliffe (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
- The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) by Eliza Parsons
- Clermont (1798) by Regina Maria Roche
- The Mysterious Warning (1796) by Eliza Parsons
- The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest (1794) by Karl Friedrich Kahlert
- The Midnight Bell (1798) by Francis Lathom
- The Orphan of the Rhine (1798) by Eleanor Sleath
- Horrid Mysteries (1796) by Carl Grosse (transcription project)
- The Genius (1796, alternate translation by Joseph Trapp)