Notes: Copyright page states: "This Dover edition, first published in 1973, is an unabridged and corrected republication of the work as published by Ben Abramson, New York, in 1945. A new Introduction by E. F. Bleiler replaces the Foreword by August Derleth in the 1945 edition." Theodore Menten is credited with "Cover design and photograph" on back cover. Index at end is not paged. Table of Contents: 1. Introduction (page 12), 2. The Dawn of the Horror Tale (17), 3. The Early Gothic Novel (23), 4. The Apex of Gothic Romance (30), 5. The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction (36), 6. Spectral Literature on the Continent (45), 7. Edgar Allan Poe (52), 8. The Weird Tradition in America (60), 9. The Weird Tradition in the British Isles (76), 10. The Modern Masters (87). Index (109).