The Evil Image
Subtitle: two centuries of Gothic short fiction and poetry
Edition: First Printing  (1)
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1981-06
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9780452005495
Copyright date: 1981
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe; title: xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredited; title: 2 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706); title: 11 • On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment • (1773) • short story by Anna Letitia Barbauld and John Aikin (variant of On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment) [as by Dr. John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld]; title: 18 • The Snow-Fiend • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe; title: 20 • December's Eve, Abroad • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe; title: 21 • December's Eve, At Home • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe; title: 23 • A Receipt for Writing a Novel • (1799) • poem by Mary Alcock; title: 27 • Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine • (1796) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis; title: 29 • Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green • (1801) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis; title: 35 • "Christabel" • (1797) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (variant of Christabel 1816); title: 55 • Manfred: A Dramatic Poem • (1817) • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron; title: 94 • The Vampyre: A Tale • [Lord Ruthven] • (1819) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori; title: 110 • A Fragment of a Novel • (1819) • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron (variant of Fragment of a Novel); title: 117 • Transformation • (1830) • short story by Mary Shelley (variant of The Transformation); title: 133 • Isabella, or The Pot of Basil • (1820) • poem by John Keats; title: 153 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott; title: 169 • The Spectre Bridegroom • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving; title: 182 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe; title: 199 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: 212 • Rochester's Song to Jane Eyre • (unknown) • poem by Charlotte Brontë; title: 214 • R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida • (1846) • poem by Emily Brontë; title: 214 • Retrospection • (1835) • poem by Charlotte Brontë; title: 215 • No Coward Soul Is Mine • (1846) • poem by Emily Brontë; title: 218 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens; title: 231 • Sister Helen • (1853) • poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; title: 240 • Goblin Market • (1859) • poem by Christina Rossetti [as by Christina Georgina Rossetti]; title: 256 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1869) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; title: 285 • Perilous Play • (1869) • short story by Louisa May Alcott; title: 298 • The Ghostly Rental • (1876) • novelette by Henry James; title: 326 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by William Butler Yeats; title: 331 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson; title: 346 • The Darkling Thrush • (1900) • poem by Thomas Hardy (variant of By the Century's Deathbed); title: 347 • A Wasted Illness • (1901) • poem by Thomas Hardy; title: 350 • The Monster • non-genre • (1898) • novella by Stephen Crane; title: 400 • The Mezzotint • (1904) • short story by M. R. James; title: 411 • Arabesque: The Mouse • (1920) • short story by A. E. Coppard; title: 419 • A Rose for Emily • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner; title: 429 • Clytie • (1941) • short story by Eudora Welty; title: 442 • The River • non-genre • (1953) • short story by Flannery O'Connor; title: 458 • Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) • (1971) • poem by Anne Sexton; title: 465 • Suffer the Little Children • (1972) • short story by Stephen King; title: 476 • Suggestions for Further Reading in the Gothic Tradition • essay by uncredited