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description: The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan PoeLeixlip Castle • (1825) • short story by Charles MaturinThe Adventure of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1824) • short story by Washington IrvingThe Ghost and the Bone-Setter • [The Purcell Papers • 1] • (1838) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le FanuThe Christmas Banquet • (1843) • short story by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Monk of Horror, or The Conclave of Corpses • (1796) • short story by AnonymousThe Expedition to Hell • (1827) • short story by James Hogg (variant of George Dobson's Expedition to Hell)The New Melusina • (1816) • novelette by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of Die neue Melusine) [as by Johann von Goethe]The Ghost-Seer, or The Apparitionist • non-genre • [Der Geisterseher • 1] • novel by Friedrich von Schiller (trans. of Der Geisterseher 1789) [as by J. F. von Schiller]The Harp • (1811) • short story by Karl Theodor Körner (trans. of Die Harfe)The Wild Huntsman! Or The Demon's Skeleton Chase • [Baron Munchausen / Münchhausen] • short fiction by Gottfried August Bürger (trans. of Der wilde Jäger? 1786) [as by Gottfried August Burger]The Bride of the Grave • novelette by Ernst Raupach (trans. of Laßt die Todten ruhen? 1822) [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck (in error)]The Field of Terror • short story by Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué? (trans. of Das Schauerfeld 1814) [as by Baron de La Motte Fouqué]The Bottle-Imp • novelette by Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué? (trans. of Das Galgenmännlein? 1814) [as by Johann Karl August Musäus (in error)?]The Spectre Barber • novella by Johann Karl August Musäus (trans. of Stumme Liebe 1782) [as by Anonymous]The Cremona Violin • (1946) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Rath Krespel 1818)The Fatal Marksman • short story by A. Apel (trans. of Der Freischütz? 1810) [as by Johann August Apel]The Devil's Ladder • short story by Alois Wilhelm Schreiber (trans. of Die Teufelsleiter 1829)The Hall of Blood • short story by Julia Pardoe (variant of The Hall of Blood: A Hungarian Tradition 1844) [as by Professor von Kramer (in error)]The Witch of Eye • short story by Henry Neele [as by Francois Baculard d'Arnaud (in error)]The Unholy Compact Abjured • (1825) • short story by uncredited (variant of The Heroism of Love 1826) [as by Charles Pigault-Lebrun]The Wandering Jew's Sentence • short story by Eugène Sue?The Parricide Punished • short fiction by Anonymous (trans. of Le crime puni 1782)Louise, or The Living Spectre • short fiction by H. Clauren (trans. of Der Wehrmann 1810) [as by Anonymous]Jan Schalken's Three Wishes • short story by H. S. Van Dyk [as by Anonymous]Maredata and Giulio, or The Ocean Spirit • short story by N. G. (variant of Maredata 1824) [as by Anonymous]Valdrwulf, or The Fiend of the Moor • (unknown) • short story by J. Fitzgerald Pennie [as by Anonymous]Rip Van Winkle • short story by Washington Irving [as by Anonymous]Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist • (1803) • novella by Charles Brockden BrownThe Strange Guests • (1837) • short story by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (variant of The Two Ghosts, or Hospitality Rewarded 1825) [as by Anonymous]Hugues, the Wer-Wolf • (1838) • short story by Sutherland MenziesThe Possessed One • short story by uncredited [as by Anonymous]Ben Blower's Story • (1842) • short story by Charles HoffmanShadow, a Parable • [Tales of the Folio Club] • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Shadow: A Fable 1835)The Tale of the Mysterious Mirror • (1828) • novelette by Sir Walter Scott (variant of My Aunt Margaret's Mirror)The Devil's Wager • (1833) • short story by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Astrologer's Prediction, or, the Maniac's Fate • (1972) • short story by uncredited (variant of The Fatalist 1824) [as by Anonymous]Maddalena, or The Fate of the Florentines • short fiction by G. E. K. I. (variant of An Italian Legend of the Fifteenth Century 1825) [as by Horace Walpole (in error)]Sir Bertrand • short fiction by John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (variant of On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment 1773) [as by Mrs. Anne Letitia Barbauld]The Haunted Chamber • (1794) • short fiction by Ann Radcliffe [as by Mrs. Ann Radcliffe]The Abbey Of Clunedale • (1804) • short fiction by Nathan Drake [as by Dr. Nathan Drake]The Anaconda • (1808) • novelette by Matthew Gregory LewisThe Nymph of the Fountain • (1791) • novelette by Johann Karl August Musäus (trans. of Die Nymphe Des Brunnens 1782) [as by William Beckford (in error)]The Black Spider • (unknown) • short fiction by AnonymousThe Water Spectre • (1809) • short story by Francis LathomSecrets Of Cabalism, or Ravenstone And Alice Of Huntingdon • (1821) • short fiction by William Child GreenThe Unknown!, or The Knight Of The Blood-Red Plume • (1826) • novelette by Ann of Swansea (variant of The Knight of the Blood-Red Plume 1802) [as by Anne Of Swansea]The Dance of the Dead • (unknown) • short story by A. Apel (trans. of Der Todtentanz 1811) [as by Anonymous]The Assassins • (1814) • short story by Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Dream • (1891) • short story by Mary Shelley [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]The Burial • (1972) • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron (variant of Fragment of a Novel 1819) [as by Lord Byron]A Tale for a Chimney Corner • (1819) • short story by Leigh HuntThe Dice • (1823) • novelette by F. Laun (trans. of Die Glückswürfel 1814) [as by Thomas De Quincey (in error)]Glenallan • (1826) • short story by Edward Bulwer-Lytton [as by Lord Lytton]The Magic Watch • (1833) • short fiction by uncredited (variant of The Diamond Watch 1826) [as by Raphael (astrologer)]The Demon Of The Hartz, or The Three Charcoal Burners • (1835) • short story by Sir Walter Scott (variant of The Fortunes of Martin Waldeck 1813) [as by Thomas Peckett Prest (in error)]The Tribunal of the Inquisition • short fiction by George W. M. Reynolds [as by G. W. M. Reynolds]The Vampyre • [Lord Ruthven] • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori (variant of The Vampyre: A Tale 1819) [as by John William Polidori]The Spectre Bride • short story by uncredited [as by W. Harrison Ainsworth (in error)]The Iron Shroud • short story by William Mudford [as by Anonymous]
language: English
title: Gothic Tales of Terror: Classic Horror Stories from Great Britain, Europe, and the United States 1765-1840
titlecomplete: Gothic Tales of Terror: Classic Horror Stories from Great Britain, Europe, and the United States 1765-1840
genres: Horror
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Taplinger Pub Co