Table of Contents

Part 1 Historical gothic: the castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole; Sir Bertrand, John Aikin; the old English Baron, Clara Reeve; the recess, Sophia Lee; Vathek, William Beckford. Part 2 Radcliffe and the school of terror: Velina de Guidova, Mary Ann Radcliffe; the castle of Wolfenbach, Eliza Parsons; the mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe; Camilla, Fanny Burney; the fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe. Part 3 Lewis and the school of horror: Caleb Williams, William Godwin; Frankenstein, Mary Shelley; the vampyre, John Polodori; Melmoth the wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin; the adventure of the German student, Washington Irving. Part 4 Drama: the mysterious mother, Horace Walpole; Fontainville forest, James Boaden; Bertram, Charles Robert Maturin; on German drama, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the vampire, James Robinson Planche; the minstrel, James Beattie; written on the seashore, Charlotte Smith; Alonzo the brave and fair Imogine, M.G. Lewis; song and ballad, Percy Bysshe Shelley; Eugene, Anna Maria Porter. Part 5 Parody: Azemia, William Beckford; Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen; the heroine, Eaton Stannard Barrett. Part 6 Criticism: on the pleasures derived from ... terror, Al Aikin; review of Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho", Ann Radcliffe; review of Maturin's "Fatal Revenge", Sir Walter Scott; monk Lewis and his coterie, David Macbeth Moir; readers' responses; late 18th century; early 19th century.