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Seven Gothic Tales
First edition
AuthorKaren Blixen
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarrison Smith and Robert Haas
Publication date
1934
Publication placeDenmark
Media typePrint
Pages420pp (1972)

Seven Gothic Tales (translated by the author into Danish as: Syv Fantastiske Fortællinger) is a collection of short stories by the Danish author Karen Blixen (under the pen name Isak Dinesen), first published in 1934, three years before her memoir Out of Africa. The collection, consisting of stories set mostly in the nineteenth century, contains her tales "The Deluge at Norderney" and "The Supper at Elsinore".[1]

  1. ^ "Seven Gothic Tales". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 31 August 2014.

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