The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- On The Pleasure Derived From Objects Of Terror; With Sir Bertrand, A Fragment / John Aikin And Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld -- The Snow-fiend ; December's Eve, Abroad ; December's Eve, At Home / Ann Radcliffe -- A Receipt For Writing A Novel / Mary Alcock -- Alonzo The Brave And Fair Imogine ; Giles Jollup The Grave And Brown Sally Green/ Matthew Gregory Lewis -- Christabel / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Manfred: A Dramatic Poem / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- The Vampyre: A Tale ; A Fragment Of A Novel / John William Polidori -- Transformation / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly -- Isbella, Or, The Pot Of Basil / John Keats -- Wandering Willie's Tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The Specter Bridegroom A Traveller's Tale / Washington Irving -- The Fall Of The House Of Usher / Edgar Allen Poe -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rochester's Song To Jane Eyre ; Retrospection / Charlotte Bronte -- R. Alcone To J. Brenzaida ; No Coward Soul Is Mine / Emily Bronte -- The Signal-man / Charles Dickens -- Sister Helen / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Goblin Market / Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Green Tea / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- Perilous Play / Louisa May Alcott -- The Ghostly Rental / Henry James -- The Stolen Child / William Butler Yeats -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Darkling Thrush ; A Wasted Illness / Thomas Hardy -- The Monster / Stephen Crane -- The Mezzotint / Montague Rhodes James -- Arabesque: The Mouse / A.e. Coppard -- A Rose For Emily / William Faulkner -- Clytie / Eudora Welty -- The River / Flannery O'conner -- Briar Rose / Anne Sexton -- Suffer The Little Children / Stephen King -- Suggestions For Further Reading In The Gothic Tradition. Edited And With An Introduction By Patricia L. Skarda And Nora Crow Jaffe. A Meridian Book. Includes Bibliographies.