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• 11 • Origins of Gothic in Literature • essay by Barbara H. Wolf and Jack C. Wolf
• 27 • Setting • essay by Barbara H. Wolf and Jack C. Wolf
• 33 • From The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story • short fiction by Horace Walpole
• 49 • From The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story • short fiction by Clara Reeve
• 69 • From Wuthering Heights • short fiction by Emily Brontë
• 97 • The Dead Planet • (1946) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 113 • Human Threat • essay by Barbara H. Wolf and Jack C. Wolf
• 117 • From The Monk • short fiction by Matthew Gregory Lewis [as by Matthew G. Lewis]
• 134 • From The Romance of the Forest • short fiction by Ann Radcliffe
• 147 • The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 165 • Supernatural Threat • essay by Barbara H. Wolf and Jack C. Wolf
• 169 • The Haunted and the Haunters: Or, The House and the Brain • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by E. Bulwer-Lytton]
• 215 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 230 • From The House of the Seven Gables • short fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 250 • The Signal-Man • (1875) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 267 • Human Monsters • essay by Barbara H. Wolf and Jack C. Wolf
• 271 • From Dracula • [Dracula Excerpts] • (1897) • short fiction by Bram Stoker
• 288 • From Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus • [Frankenstein] • short fiction by Mary Shelley [as by Mary W. Shelley]
• 307 • From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde excerpts] • short fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 327 • From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • short fiction by George W. M. Reynolds
• 342 • From Melmoth the Wanderer • short fiction by Charles Maturin [as by Robert Maturin]
• 367 • Monsters of Unknown Origin • essay by Barbara H. Wolf and Jack C. Wolf
• 371 • From The War of the Worlds • [The War of the Worlds] • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 391 • From Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book • short fiction by M. R. James [as by Montague Rhodes James]
• 405 • What Was It? • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 421 • From The Day of the Triffids • (1964) • short fiction by John Wyndham
• 443 • Psychological Threat • essay by Barbara H. Wolf and Jack C. Wolf
• 447 • From The Turn of the Screw • short fiction by Henry James
• 464 • From Wieland • short fiction by Charles Brockden Brown
• 476 • Sredni Vashtar • (1910) • short story by Saki
• 482 • The Yellow Wall Paper • (1937) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 503 • Unknown Threat • essay by Barbara H. Wolf and Jack C. Wolf
• 506 • From The Willows • short fiction by Algernon Blackwood
• 528 • From The Horla • [Unidentified Horla translations and excerpts] • short fiction by Guy de Maupassant
• 550 • The Dead Valley • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• 561 • From Beyond • [Dream Cycle] • (1934) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 570 • Selected Bibliography (Ghosts, Castles, and Victims) • essay by uncredited
• 571 • About the Authors (Ghosts, Castles, and Victims) • essay by uncredited