Title: The Evil image : two centuries of Gothic short fiction and poetry /
Authors: Jaffe, Nora; Skarda, Patricia L.
Publisher: New American Library,
Year: 1981
Subjects: English literature; Gothic revival (Literature); American literature; Horror tales
Abstract: An introduction precedes each of the 32 selections, placing it in proper perspective, pointing out the Gothic variations on themes and motifs and its relation to other Gothic works, including the influence and beliefs of the author.
Contents: 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.