The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, 4th Edition

This dictionary's virtues and its plain-spokenness make it ... as apt to the bedside table as to the desk: Dr Baldick is a Brewer for specialized tastes'Times Literary Supplementfun to read … first rate’Toronto Globe and Mail

Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London. He edited The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992), and is the author of The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 10 (1910-1940): The Modern Movement (2004), In Frankenstein’s Shadow (1987), Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present (1996), and other works of literary history. He has edited, with Rob Morrison, Tales of Terror from Blackwood’s Magazine, and The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre, and has written an introduction to Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer.