Dover, Mineola, NY, 2003, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-486-43214-9.  Trade soft cover, 291 pages.  Very good; light edge and cover wear, sticker ghosts on front and rear wraps, bit of colour chipping at spine ends and along edges; pages tanned; appears unread.  ‘Supernatural events, women in distress, and a corrupt clergy were popular themes in the Gothic novels of the nineteenth century.  All of those elements, along with murder, incest, and the excesses of the Spanish Inquisition, are present in The Monk (1796), one of the era’s best-selling and most influential novels.’ (from rear wrap)