Title: The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
First published: September 24, 2001
Description: Part 1 Beginnings: 
"Sir Bertrand - A Fragment" (1773), Anna Laetitia Aiken
"The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791), Richard Cumberland
"The Friar's Tale" (1792), Anonymous
"Raymond - A Fragment (1799), "Juvenis"
"The Parricide Punished" (1799), Anonymous
"The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin" (1801), Anonymous
"The Vindictive Monk, or The Fatal Ring" (1802), Isaac Crookenden. 

Part 2 The 19th century: 
"The Astrologer's Prediction or the Maniac's Fate" (1826), Anonymous 
"Andreas Vesalius the Anatomist" (1833), Petrus Borel
"Lady Eltringham or The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross" (1836), J. Wadham
"[The Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)" (1839), Edgar Allan Poe
"A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" (1839), Sheridan Le Fanu
"[Rappacini's Daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W)" (1844), Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Selina Sedilia" (1865), Bret Harte
"Jean-Ah Poquelin" (1875), George Washington Cable
"Olalla" (1885), Robert Louis Stevenson
"Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1891), Thomas Hardy
"Bloody Blanche" (1892), Marcel Schwob
"The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892), Charlotte Perkins Stetson
"[The Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W)" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle
"Hurst of Hurstcote" (1893), E. Nesbit. 

Part 3 The 20th century: 
"A Vine on the House" (1905), Ambrose Bierce
"Jordan's End" (1923), Ellen Glasgow
"The Outsider" (1926), H.P. Lovecraft
"[A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)" (1930), William Faulkner
"A Rendezvous in Averoigne" (1931), Clark Ashton Smith
"The Monkey" (1934), Isak Dinesen
"Miss De Mannering of Asham" (1935), F.M. Mayor
"The Vampire of Kaldenstein" (1938), Frederick Cowles
"Clytie" (1941), Eudora Welty
"Sardonicus" (1961), Ray Russell
"The Bloody Countess" (1968), Alejandra Pizarnik
"The Gospel According to Mark" (1970), Jorge Luis Borges
"The Lady of the House of Love" (1979), Angela Carter
"Secret Observations of the Goat-Girl" (1988), Joyce Carol Oates
"Blood Disease" (1988), Patrick McGrath
"If You Touched My Heart" (1991), Isabel Allende.
Subjects: tradition, change, death, short stories, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, Fiction, amorality, Anglo-Saxons, aristocracy, detective fiction, Juvenile audience, locked-room mysteries, Mystery and detective stories, Drama, Private investigators, Children's fiction, Gothic fiction (literary genre), Horror tales, Fantasy fiction, Paranormal fiction, Gothic revival (Literature), Supernatural, FictionAmerican Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, short story
Places: England, Calcutta, India, Surrey, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, Padua, Italy, University of Padua
People: Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Stroke Moran, Helen Stoner, Grimesby Roylott, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice Rappaccini
Time periods: Antebellum era