• Publication: Three Gothic NovelsPublication Record # 224681
• Author: E. F. Bleiler
• Date: 1966-06-00
• Catalog ID: 21232-7
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Price:
  $2.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xl+291
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: OMNIBUS
• Notes:

  • Price $2.00 from reviews 1966-06-12 by Vincent Starrett Chi. Tribune pJ11 (featured) and by Anthony Boucher NY Times p316 (one of 8). Also from Tuck.
  • Publication date from coincidence of those review dates (earliest title hits found 2018-04-26 in automated search of 1966 newspapers) with "1966-06-01" reported at Amazon US/UK (with a later cover image evidently).
  • Catalog ID ("serial number") and price $2.00 from panel advertisement NY Times 1969-04-13 pBR31, "Off-trail paperbound books from Dover, at lowest prices", with order form. Therein the listing for this book suggests a long title with "Three Gothic Novels" as subtitle. See the parent omnibus record for more information on how the title/heading is fashioned (see). (WorldCat library records (OCLC, below) show some of the variety.)
• External IDs:
  • ASIN: B01FIYSVIU AU BR CA CN DE ES FR IN IT JP MX NL TR UAE UK US (US/UK earn commissions)
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 205
  • LCCN: 64016338
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 865181260 881658032 221123662 924195008
  • Reginald-1: 01464

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Horace Walpole and The Castle of Otranto • (1966) • essay by Everett F. Bleiler [as by E. F. Bleiler]
• xix • William Beckford and Vathek • (1966) • essay by Everett F. Bleiler [as by E. F. Bleiler]
• xxxi • John Polidori and The Vampyre • (1966) • essay by Everett F. Bleiler [as by E. F. Bleiler]
• 3 • Sir Walter Scott's Introduction (The Castle of Otranto) • (1907) • essay by Sir Walter Scott (variant of Introduction (The Castle of Otranto) 1811)
• 17 • Preface to the First Edition (The Castle of Otranto) • (1764) • essay by Horace Walpole
• 21 • Preface to the Second Edition (The Castle of Otranto) • (1765) • essay by Horace Walpole
• 27 • The Castle of Otranto • (1764) • novel by Horace Walpole
• 107 • Vathek • [Vathek • 1] • (1786) • novel by William Beckford (trans. of Vathek)
• 195 • Notes (Vathek: An Arabian Tale) • (1966) • essay by Everett F. Bleiler [as by E. F. Bleiler]
• 255 • The Vampyre: A Tale • [Lord Ruthven] • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori [as by John Polidori]
• 285 • Fragment of a Novel • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron [as by Lord Byron]