Table of Contents
Contents Introduction Note on the Text I. Fear, Terror, and the Supernatural On the Words for ‘Fear’ in Certain Languages: A Study in Linguistic Psychology – Alex F. Chamberlain Excerpt from On the Sublime and Beautiful – Edmund Burke On the Pleasure of Writing Dismal Stories, Exciting Surprize and Horror – Daniel Defoe Excerpt from The Prodigal and His Brother – Frederick W. Robertson The Dread of the Supernatural – The Spectator Gothic Horror – Lafcadio Hearn II. The Gothics and Their Successors Excerpt from The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction – Edward Yardley Excerpt from Literary Hour No. VIII – Nathan Drake Excerpt from a review of Literary Hours by Nathan Drake – The Monthly Review Introductory Dialogue to Tales of Terror – Matthew Lewis (attributed) Excerpt from The Revival of Romance – Walter Raleigh The School of Terror – Thomas E. Rankin and Wilford M. Aikin Fiction in the Romantic Movement – William Allen Neilson Excerpt from Mrs. Ann Radcliffe – Sir Walter Scott Excerpt from Fragments of an Unpublished Manuscript – Adam Eagle (Fitz-James O’Brien) Letter to William Godwin – Charles Lamb Introduction to Ghost Stories – Rudolph Ackermann A Tale for a Chimney-Corner – Leigh Hunt Excerpt from Extract of a Letter from Geneva – John Polidori Remarks on Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus – Sir Walter Scott Excerpt from a review of Frankenstein – John Croker Excerpt from a review of Frankenstein – Edinburgh Magazine Review of Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein – The London Magazine Excerpt from Mrs. Shelley – R. H. Horne Letter of Lord Byron Denying Authorship of The Vampire – Lord Byron Excerpt from Ellis, Acton, and Currer Bell – Peter Bayne III. Poe and His Successors Excerpt from Later German Romanticism – George H. Danton The Origins of Hawthorne and Poe – Paul Elmer More Edgar Allan Poe – Robert Chambers Excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe – James Russell Lowell Review of The Raven and Other Poems – The Knickerbocker Poe: Lack of Substance – W. C. Brownell Poe’s Fixing of the Short-Story Form – Charles Sears Baldwin Fitz-James O’Brien – Charles Sears Baldwin Excerpt from The Mid-Century in America – Henry Seidel Canby Maupassant and Poe - Frederic Rowland Marvin Advertisement for Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce Excerpt from Ambrose Bierce: An Appraisal – Frederic Taber Cooper Bierce: Satire, Romance, Philosophy – Edwin Markham Excerpt from The Short Story – Fred Lewis Pattee Excerpt from Concerning Cobb – The Bookman IV. Monsters of the Gilded Age The Physiology of Penny Awfuls – The London Hermit (Walter Parke) Review of The Purcell Papers by J. Sheridan Le Fanu – Saturday Review Excerpt from Concerning Tea – E. V. Lucas Excerpt from The New Gallery – J. Charles Cox The Religion of Robert Louis Stevenson – W. J. Dawson Review of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – The Dublin Review Excerpt from Novelist’s Law – Alfred Bailey The Secret Out – The New York Herald-Tribune Excerpt from Richard Mansfield – William Henry Frost Excerpt from R. L. Stevenson – Richard Le Gallienne Excerpt from Our Library List – Murray’s Magazine Excerpt from Our Booking-Office– Baron de B.-W. Supped Full with Horrors – Charles F. Lummis Review of Dracula – The Literary World Excerpt from Open Questions: Talks with Our Correspondents – Current Literature Excerpt from Human Sexuality – J. Richardson Parke Letter to Julian Hawthorne – Edmund Clarence Stedman Excerpt from Modern Vampirism – A. Osborne Eaves Frankenstein – The Bookman V. Fin de Siècle Science, Detection, and Terror Excerpt from Fictions of the Future – The Dublin Review Excerpt from Our Booking-Office – The Baron Review of The Invisible Man – William Morton Payne Excerpt from Love, War and Pseudo-science – William Lyon Phelps Mr. Wells’s War of the Worlds – Clement Shorter Review of The War of the Worlds – William Morton Payne Excerpt from The Technique of the Mystery Story – Carolyn Wells Review of My Friend the Murderer – The Literary World Excerpt from Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Bartlett Maurice Curiosity and Horror in the Theatre – Arthur Bingham Walkley Review of The Three Imposters – The Bookman Review of The Great God Pan – Richard Henry Stoddard The Gospel of Intensity – Harry Quilter Excerpt from Oscar Wilde – A. Edward Newton Art and Luxury – Ramiro de Maetzu VI. Ghosts and Kindred Horrors Excerpt from A Study of Individual Psychology – Caroline Mills The Value of the Supernatural in Fiction – Lafcadio Hearn Some Japanese Bogie-Books – Andrew Lang Ghost Stories – W. F. Dawson Excerpt from Books of the Christmas Season – Noah Brooks Two Volumes from Henry James – Henry Wysham Lanier Excerpt from Gillette – Amy Leslie Excerpt from Chronicle and Comment – The Bookman Review of The King in Yellow – The Literary World Review of The Wind in the Rose Bush – The Literary World Mr. Morris’s The Footprint – Ward Clark Algernon Blackwood: An Appreciation – Grace Isabel Colbron Robert Hichens – Frederic Taber Cooper The Creeps – H. D. Traill The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction – Olivia Howard Dunbar VII. Toward a Horror Genre The Supernatural in Fiction – Andrew Lang The Abuse of the Supernatural in Fiction – Edmund Gosse Review of The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction – Montague Summers Excerpt from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction – Dorothy Scarborough Appendix |
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