The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmith's College, University of London. His books include In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth Century Writing and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.

Introduction

xi

I. BEGINNINGS

Sir Bertrand: A Fragment (1773)

3

(4)

Anna Laetitia Aikin

The Poisoner of Montremos (1791)

7

(5)

Richard Cumberland

The Friar's Tale (1792)

Anonymous

12

(11)

Raymond: A Fragment (1799)

`Fuvenis'

23

(4)

The Parricide Punished (1799)

Anonymous

27

(4)

The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin (1801)

Anonymous

31

(20)

The Vindictive Monk or The Fatal Ring (1802)

51

(12)

Isaac Crookenden

II. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

The Astrologer's Prediction or The Maniac's Fate (1826)

Anonymous

63

(7)

Andreas Vesalius the Anatomist (1833)

70

(12)

Petrus Borel

Lady Eltringham or The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross (1836)

82

(3)

J. Wadham

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)

85

(17)

Edgar Allan Poe

A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family (1839)

102

(31)

Sheridan Le Fanu

Rappaccini's Daughter (1844)

133

(25)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selina Sedilia (1865)

158

(7)

Bret Harte

Jean-Ah Poquelin (1875)

165

(18)

George Washington Cable

Olalla (1885)

183

(35)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Barbara of the House of Grebe (1891)

218

(27)

Thomas Hardy

Bloody Blanche (1892)

245

(4)

Marcel Schwob

The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892)

249

(15)

Charlotte Perkins Stetson

The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892)

264

(22)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hurst of Hurstcote (1893)

286

(13)

E. Nesbit

III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

A Vine on a House (1905)

299

(3)

Ambrose Bierce

Jordan's End (1923)

302

(14)

Ellen Glasgow

The Outsider (1926)

316

(6)

H. P. Lovecraft

A Rose For Emily (1930)

322

(9)

William Faulkner

A Rendezvous in Averoigne (1931)

331

(13)

Clark Ashton Smith

The Monkey (1934)

344

(42)

Isak Dinesen

Miss De Mannering of Asham (1935)

386

(21)

F. M. Mayor

The Vampire of Kaldenstein (1938)

407

(17)

Frederick Cowles

Clytie (1941)

424

(11)

Eudora Welty

Sardonicus (1961)

435

(31)

Ray Russell

The Bloody Countess (1968)

466

(12)

Alejandra Pizarnik

The Gospel According to Mark (1970)

478

(5)

Jorge Luis Borges

The Lady of the House of Love (1979)

483

(15)

Angela Carter

Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl (1988)

498

(4)

Joyce Carol Oates

Blood Disease (1988)

502

(17)

Patrick McGrath

If You Touched My Heart (1991)

519

(8)

Isabel Allende

Notes

527

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