The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry
| Book | The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry |
| Editor | Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Crow Jaffe |
| Imprint | Meridian, New American Library |
| Publisher | The New American Library, Inc., The New American Library of Canada Limited, The New English Library Limited |
| Copyright Holder | Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Crow Jaffe |
| Contributing Writer | Daniel Defoe, John Aikin, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Alcock, Matthew Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, M. R. James, A. E. Coppard, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Sexton, Stephen King |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York, London and Scarborough, Ontario |
| First Printing | 1981-06 |
| Copyright | 1981 |
| Pages / Font | 479 pages |
| Other | F549 |
| Price | $8.95 |
| Price | CANADA $9.95 |
| Impression/Printing No. | 1 |
| Printer's Key | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |
| Chapters | General Introduction Critical Studies of the Gothic Daniel Defoe (ca. 1660-1731) "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal" (1706) Dr. John Aikin (1746-1822) and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825) "On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment" (1773) Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) "The Snow-Fiend" (1826) "December's Eve, Abroad" (1826) "December's Eve, at Home" (1826) Mary Alcock (1742-1823) "A Receipt for Writing a Novel" (1799) Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) "Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine" (1796) "Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green" (1801) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) "Christabel" (1797-1801) George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) "Manfred: A Dramatic Poem" (1817) Dr. John William Polidori (1795-1821) "The Vampyre; a Tale" (1819) "A Fragment of a Novel" by Byron (1819) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) "Transformation" (1831) John Keats (1795-1821) "Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil" (1820) Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) "Wandering Willie's Tale" (1824) Washington Irving (1783-1859) "The Spectre Bridegroom. A Traveller's Tale" (1819-1820) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Charlotte Brontë "Rochester's Song to Jane Eyre" (1847) "Retrospection" (1835) Emily Brontë "R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida" (1845) "No Coward Soul Is Mine" (1846) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) "The Signal-Man" (1866) Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) "Sister Helen" (1853-1881) Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) "Goblin Market" (1859) Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) "Green Tea" (1869) Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) "Perilous Play" (1863) Henry James (1843-1916) "The Ghostly Rental" (1876) William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "The Stolen Child" (1886) Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) "Markheim" (1887) Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) "The Darkling Thrush" (1901) "A Wasted Illness" (1901) Stephen Crane (1871-1900) "The Monster" (1899) Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) "The Mezzotint" (1904) A. E. Coppard (1878-1957) "Arabesque: The Mouse" (1920) William Faulkner (1897-1962) "A Rose for Emily" (1930) Eudora Welty (1909- ) "Clytie" (1941) Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) "The River" Anne Sexton (1928-1975) "Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)" (1971) Stephen King (1947- ) "Suffer the Little Children" (1972) Suggestions for Further Reading in the Gothic Tradition |
| Notes | Printed in the United States of America |
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