[Gothic Novel]. Klosterheim: or, the Masque. By the English Opium-Eater.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1832. First edition of De Quincey’s only original novel, in publisher’s boards, a work in the spirit of the gothic novels he consumed as a child (he referred to Ann Radcliffe as “the great enchantress”), featuring a masquerade, murders, and the Thirty Years’ War.....