terror-and-mystery

Updated: June 3, 2025

No special production of these twenty years may be of the highest value; but there is a certain idiosyncrasy, if only an idiosyncrasy of transition an unlikeness to anything that comes before, and to anything, unless directly imitated, that comes after which is equally distinguishable in the curious succession of poetical satires from Peter Pindar to the Anti-Jacobin, in the terror-and-mystery novels of the school of Mrs.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)