List of Plates p. vi
Introduction p. vii
1 Historical Gothic p. 1
1764 The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole p. 2
1773 Sir Bertrand, a Fragment John Aikin p. 7
1778 The Old English Baron Clara Reeve p. 10
1785 The Recess Sophia Lee p. 13
1786 Vathek William Beckford p. 17
1790 Review of White's John of Gaunt p. 22
1795 Mysteries Elucidated Anna Maria Mackenzie p. 27
1796 The Haunted Cavern John Palmer p. 30
1796 Hubert de Sevrac Mary Robinson p. 32
1806 The Novice of Saint Dominick Sydney Owenson p. 36
2 The Radcliffe School of Terror p. 40
1790 The Fate of Velina de Guidova p. 44
1793 The Castle of Wolfenbach Eliza Parsons p. 46
1794 The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe p. 51
1793-7 Grasville Abbey George Moore p. 55
1796 Camilla Fanny Burney p. 61
1796 The Children of the Abbey Regina Maria Roche p. 64
1797 The Italian Ann Radcliffe p. 69
1798 The Orphan of the Rhine Eleanor Sleath p. 76
1798 Wieland Charles Brockden Brown p. 82
1803 Romance of the Pyrenees Catherine Cuthbertson p. 88
1806 Secrets of the Castle David Carey p. 92
1809 Manfrone Mary Anne Radcliffe p. 95
1834 Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth p. 99
1839 'The Fall of the House of Usher' Edgar Allan Poe p. 102
3 The 'German' School of Horror p. 106
1794 The Necromancer Peter Teuthold (trans.) p. 107
1794 The Adventures of Caleb Williams William Godwin p. 110
1796 The Monk Matthew Gregory Lewis p. 117
1797 Horrid Mysteries Peter Will (trans.) p. 122
1798 The Midnight Bell Francis Lathom p. 129
1802 Koenigsmark the Robber Victor Jules Sarret p. 136
1806 Zofloya Charlotte Dacre p. 143
1808 The Midnight Groan p. 147
1812 Tales of the Dead Sarah Brown Utterson (trans.) p. 152
1818 Frankenstein Mary Shelley p. 157
1819 The Vampyre John Polidori p. 161
1820 Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin p. 166
1824 'The Adventure of the German Student' Washington Irving p. 170
4 Drama p. 175
1768 The Mysterious Mother Horace Walpole p. 176
1783 Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons James Boaden p. 180
1794 'A Ghostly Performance' James Boaden p. 183
1797 Review of Boaden's The Italian Monk p. 186
1797 The Castle Spectre Matthew Gregory Lewis p. 188
1797 'Reminiscences of M. G. Lewis' Michael Kelly p. 196
1798 De Monfort: A Tragedy Joanna Baillie p. 197
1800 'On the Absurdities of the Modern Stage' 'Academicus' p. 204
1800 'A Performance of Julia and Agnes' Mary Russell Mitford p. 205
1816 Bertram Charles Robert Maturin p. 205
1816 'On "German" Drama' Samuel Taylor Coleridge p. 213
1820 The Vampire James Robinson Planche p. 216
5 Poetry p. 224
1771 The Minstrel James Beattie p. 225
1784 'Written on the Sea Shore' Charlotte Smith p. 228
1793 The Emigrants Charlotte Smith p. 228
1787 'Invocation to Horror' Hannah Cowley p. 230
1790 'Superstition. An Ode' Ann Radcliffe p. 233
1791 'To the Visions of Fancy' Ann Radcliffe p. 234
1791 'Night' Ann Radcliffe p. 234
1798 'To the River Dove' Ann Radcliffe p. 236
1793 'Ode to Superstition' Nathan Drake p. 238
1796 'Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine' Matthew Gregory Lewis p. 240
1800 'The Mad Monk' Samuel Taylor Coleridge p. 243
1801 Tales of Terror Matthew Gregory Lewis p. 245
1801 Review of Lewis's Tales of Wonder p. 248
1807 'Ballad' Percy Bysshe Shelley p. 250
1810 'The Vampyre' John Stagg p. 253
1849 'Annabel Lee' Edgar Allan Poe p. 257
6 Parody p. 259
1797 Azemia William Beckford p. 261
1798 Northanger Abbey Jane Austen p. 263
1799 'The Scribbler' Mary Alcock p. 268
1804 'A Village Circulating Library' Charles Dibdin p. 269
1810 'To Make a Novel' p. 270
1810 The Age; A Poem p. 271
1813 The Heroine Eaton Stannard Barrett p. 274
7 Theory and Criticism p. 279
1773 'On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror' Anna Laetitia Aikin p. 281
1783 'Illustrations on Sublimity' James Beattie p. 283
1794 The Banished Man Charlotte Smith p. 285
1794 Review of Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho p. 289
1796 The Mysterious Warning Eliza Parsons p. 290
1797 The Pursuits of Literature Thomas James Mathias p. 292
1797 Review of Lewis's The Monk Samuel Taylor Coleridge p. 295
1797 'The Terrorist System of Novel-Writing' p. 299
1797 'On the Titles of Modern Novels' p. 303
1798 'Vindication of The Monk' p. 305
1801 Ancient Records T. J. Horsley Curties p. 308
1802 'Novels and Romances' 'Rimelli' p. 309
1802 'On the Supernatural in Poetry' Ann Radcliffe p. 311
1803 Flowers of Literature Rev. F. Prevost and F. Blagdon p. 316
1810 Review of Maturin's Fatal Revenge Sir Walter Scott p. 318
1811 Walpole's Castle of Otranto Sir Walter Scott p. 323
1818 'The Preternatural in Works of Fiction' p. 327
1819 'William Godwin's Novels' William Hazlitt p. 329
1821 Review of Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer p. 332
1851 'Monk Lewis and His Coterie' David Macbeth Moir p. 335
8 Readers' Responses p. 339
Late Eighteenth Century
Early Nineteenth Century
Index p. 370