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.