The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

Introduction I. BEGINNINGS Sir Bertrand: A Fragment (1773) Anna Laetitia Aikin 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 II. THE NINETEENTH 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 (1839) Edgar Allan Poe A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family (1839) Sheridan Le Fanu Rappaccini's Daughter (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 (1892) Arthur Conan Doyle Hurst of Hurstcote (1893) E. Nesbit III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A Vine on a House (1905) Ambrose Pierce Jordan's End (1923) Ellen Glasgow The Outsider (1926) H. P. Lovecraft A Rose for Emily (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) Endora 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 on the Goat-Girl (1988) Joyce Carol Oates Blood Disease (1988) Patrick McGrath If You Touched My Heart (1991) Isabelle Allende Notes