Title: The Evil Image
Description: xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe
xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredited
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)
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]
18 • The Snow-Fiend • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe
20 • December's Eve, Abroad • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe
21 • December's Eve, At Home • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe
23 • A Receipt for Writing a Novel • (1799) • poem by Mary Alcock
27 • Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine • (1796) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis
29 • Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green • (1801) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis
35 • "Christabel" • (1797) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (variant of Christabel 1816)
55 • Manfred: A Dramatic Poem • (1817) • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron
94 • The Vampyre: A Tale • [Lord Ruthven] • (1819) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori
110 • A Fragment of a Novel • (1819) • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron (variant of Fragment of a Novel)
117 • Transformation • (1830) • short story by Mary Shelley (variant of The Transformation)
133 • Isabella, or The Pot of Basil • (1820) • poem by John Keats
153 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
169 • The Spectre Bridegroom • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
182 • [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)• (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
199 • [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
212 • Rochester's Song to Jane Eyre • (unknown) • poem by Charlotte Brontë
214 • R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida • (1846) • poem by Emily Brontë
214 • Retrospection • (1835) • poem by Charlotte Brontë
215 • No Coward Soul Is Mine • (1846) • poem by Emily Brontë
218 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens
231 • Sister Helen • (1853) • poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
240 • Goblin Market • (1859) • poem by Christina Rossetti [as by Christina Georgina Rossetti]
256 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1869) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
285 • Perilous Play • (1869) • short story by Louisa May Alcott
298 • The Ghostly Rental • (1876) • novelette by Henry James
326 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by William Butler Yeats
331 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
346 • The Darkling Thrush • (1900) • poem by Thomas Hardy (variant of By the Century's Deathbed)
347 • A Wasted Illness • (1901) • poem by Thomas Hardy
350 • The Monster • non-genre • (1898) • novella by Stephen Crane
400 • The Mezzotint • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
411 • Arabesque: The Mouse • (1920) • short story by A. E. Coppard
419 • [A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
429 • Clytie • (1941) • short story by Eudora Welty
442 • The River • non-genre • (1953) • short story by Flannery O'Connor
458 • Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) • (1971) • poem by Anne Sexton
465 • Suffer the Little Children • (1972) • short story by Stephen King
476 • Suggestions for Further Reading in the Gothic Tradition • essay by uncredited
Subjects: English literature, American literature, Horror tales, anthologies, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, short stories, tarns, Satanism, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Boys, tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, Gothic revival (Literature), Fiction, horror, Gothic fiction (literary genre)
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County
People: Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris
Time periods: 1600s, Antebellum era