This classic collection features 25 tales shaped by gothic's mood of menace and the macabre.
In addition to the world-famous title novel, the anthology includes Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, which launched the gothic novel craze, as well as stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Machen, Louisa May Alcott, E.T.A. Hoffmann, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and Vernon Lee.
Contents: The Vampyre by John Polidori The Transformation by Mary Shelley The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffman Somnambulism: A Frgament by Charles Brockden Brown The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole Metzengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy The Abbot's Ghost, or, Maurice Treherne's Temptation by Louisa May Alcott Marsyas in Flanders by Vernon Lee The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford The De Grabrooke Monument by Mrs. J. H. Riddell The Family of a Vourdalak by Aleksey Tolstoy The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers Execution by M.Y. Halidom The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen The House of Sounds by M.P. Shiel The Secret of the Growing Gold by Bram Stoker In the Court of the Dragon by Robert W. Chambers Sister Maddelena by Ralph Adams Cram The Ghost of Mohammed Din by Clark Ashton Smith The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
This classic collection features 25 tales shaped by gothic's mood of menace and the macabre.
In addition to the world-famous title novel, the anthology includes Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, which launched the gothic novel craze, as well as stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Machen, Louisa May Alcott, E.T.A. Hoffmann, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and Vernon Lee.
Contents: The Vampyre by John Polidori The Transformation by Mary Shelley The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffman Somnambulism: A Frgament by Charles Brockden Brown The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole Metzengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy The Abbot's Ghost, or, Maurice Treherne's Temptation by Louisa May Alcott Marsyas in Flanders by Vernon Lee The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford The De Grabrooke Monument by Mrs. J. H. Riddell The Family of a Vourdalak by Aleksey Tolstoy The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers Execution by M.Y. Halidom The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen The House of Sounds by M.P. Shiel The Secret of the Growing Gold by Bram Stoker In the Court of the Dragon by Robert W. Chambers Sister Maddelena by Ralph Adams Cram The Ghost of Mohammed Din by Clark Ashton Smith The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux