So, basically I need a hand finding some good gothic stories for ESL students.
They need to be as short as possibly, and reasonably easy, without being childish in nature.
They can be any flavour of gothic, so basically gothic-ish is fine, as long as they can be related to the gothic genre.
Any and all suggestions are welcome!
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I had considered Southern Gothic, but some of it might be on the more difficult side. Would probably want to go with Flannery O'Connor if I went that way, though.
Finral: Yeah, gonna walk them through The Raven and have them look at Tell-Tale heart. Tell-Tale Heart is pretty accessible, I think, if I provide a good glossary. Probably gonna show them the Simpsons Halloween Raven bit while we're doing that stuff.
Comahawk: Good idea, hadn't thought of that. Might do some excerpts from that, or something.
Specifically the one about the lighter and the finger-cutting. We got that when we were about 16 iirc...
edit: i mentioned this story because they're all pretty macabre. Not sure if they fit in your setting, but they certainly can get creepy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_literature#Post-Victorian_legacy
Though it doesn't state the length of the stories. If you get desperate, you could always look through each author's work.
People get tired of reading too many things in excerpts.
The link is from Gutenberg.org, so you can look over it and see if some are appropriate for the class.