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• Metzengerstein • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1832) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Last Man (excerpt) • (1826) • short fiction by Mary Shelley
• The Monk (excerpt) • short fiction by Matthew Gregory Lewis [as by Matthew Lewis]
• The Castle of Otranto (excerpt) • short fiction by Horace Walpole
• The Old English Baron (excerpt) • (1883) • short fiction by Clara Reeve
• Vathek (excerpt) • (1786) • short fiction by William Beckford
• Caleb Williams (excerpt) • non-genre • (1794) • short fiction by William Godwin
• Wieland, or, The Transformation (excerpt) • (1798) • short story by Charles Brockden Brown
• Melmoth the Wanderer (excerpt) • (1820) • short fiction by Charles Maturin
• The Cult of Zanoni (excerpt) • (1842) • short story by Edward Bulwer-Lytton [as by Edward Bulwer Lytton]
• The Feast of Blood (excerpt) • [Varney the Vampyre (excerpts)] • short fiction by Thomas P. Prest [as by Thomas Prest]
• The Mysteries of Paris (excerpt) • (1966) • short fiction by
  Eugène Sue^?Eugene Sue
• The House by the Churchyard (excerpt) • (1863) • short fiction by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. S. Le Fanu]
• The Elixir of Life (excerpt from Auriol) • (1850) • short fiction by William Harrison Ainsworth
• Introduction (The Craft of Terror) • (1966) • essay by Peter Haining
• Ferdinand, Count Fathom (excerpt) • (1753) • short fiction by Tobias Smollett