David Blair – Gothic Short Stories

David Blair (ed.) – Gothic Short Stories (Wordsworth Editions, 2002)

Anna Letitia Aiken – Sir Bertrand: A Fragment
Nathan Drake and Anonymous – Captive of the Banditti
Anonymous – Extracts from Gosschen’s Diary: No. 1
Charles Robert Maturin – The Parricide’s Tale
Anonymous – The Spectre Bride
Sir Walter Scott – The Tapestried Chamber
Edgar Allan Poe – Berenice
Charles Dickens – A Madman’s Manuscript
J.S. le Fanu – Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Ethan Brand
Elizabeth Gaskell – The Old Nurse’s Story
Robert Louis Stevenson – The Body-Snatcher
Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper
Ambrose Bierce – The Death of Halpin Frayser
M.R. James – Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook
Ralph Adams Cram – No. 252 Rue M. le Prince
S. Carleton – The Lame Priest
Mary Wilkins Freeman – Luella Miller
Richard Middleton – The Bird in the Garden
E.F. Benson – The Room in the Tower

Blurb:

Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury

This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost-and horror-story. Some of these stories, like the haunting The Lame Priest are ‘lost masterpieces’ and several have never been anthologised before.